Government discussion

  

In just a couple more weeks, early voting will begin in Texas! What are we voting on? Well, we will all have to decide on 10 proposed state constitutional amendments. Every state has its own state constitution, and in Texas, we have nearly 500 amendments already, so it’s not unusual for us to update it quite frequently. To help voters learn about these newly proposed amendments, the Texas Legislative Council always creates a guide to explain what each amendment would do and to provide information on why some people might favor it or oppose it. That’s what we’re going to take a look at for this week’s current events discussion! Here is the Council’s official guide for the 2019 state constitutional amendments election taking place in just a couple weeks:
https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/Constitutional_Amendments/amendments86_tlc_2019-11-05.pdf (Links to an external site.)
On the first few pages, you’ll see a Table of Contents with each amendment (they’re called, “propositions” in the guide). If you see one you’d like to know more about, you can go to that page listed in the Table of Contents to read more about it.
Is there one of these amendments that you think you’d like to see voters approve this fall? Explain.