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Spring 2019, Vol. 8, No. 3 Columns Leads Features Message from the President Genesis of the Constitution of Coahuila The Spring Board Meeting at San Felipe By Marcy Hogan Greer and Texas: Debates and Agreement de Austin Was a Runaway Success Our Spring Board of Story and photos by David A. Furlow Trustees meeting in in the Construction of Its Only Our Society went on the San Felipe de Austin road to enjoy the Texas inspired a robust Magna Carta history on display at discussion of ambitious By Manuel González Oropeza the San Felipe de Austin plans for the Society. Marcy Hogan After the 1760–1808 reforms, Mexico’s Greer Museum and Visitors Read more... Internal Eastern Provinces included the Center. Read more... New Kingdom of León, Executive Director’s Page the Colonia de Nuevo TSHA’s 2019 Annual Meeting Panel: By Sharon Sandle Santander, Coahuila, Flag of Coahuila and Texas Lawyers shaped Texas’s and Texas. Read more... Texas Constitutionalism A to Z history, but it’s also true By David A. Furlow that the unique nature Six Constitutions over Texas, 1836-1876 Our Society joined with TSHA to examine of Texas shaped our By William J. Chriss “The History of Texas’s legal history as well. Texans changed from Read more... Constitutions, 1827 and Sharon Sandle ardent supporters of Beyond” at TSHA’s 123rd the United States into Annual Meeting. Omni Corpus rebellious secessionists Fellows Column Read more... Christi, site of the after only a few years. Meeting By David J. Beck Read more... At the 2019 Annual Flags over Texas New Legal History Fellowship Will Fellows Dinner, all the Justices from the Texas The Number Nine: Why the Texas Honor Former TSCHS and TSHA Supreme Court joined the Fellows at the Supreme Court Has the Same Number President Larry McNeill Blanton Museum of Art David J. Beck of Justices as the United States By Marilyn P. Duncan in Austin. Read more... The Society’s Board Supreme Court of Trustees approved By Josiah M. Daniel, III funding for a new Executive Editor’s Page The number of nine fellowship in honor of By David A. Furlow justices staffing the one of TSHA’s most SCOTX dates from esteemed leaders. The Spanish Larry McNeill promulgated and the adoption of a Read more... followed a liberal state constitutional founding document that amendment only 74 The 1888–1959 Texas Supreme became the first written years ago. Read more... Court Courtroom constitution to govern David A. Furlow Texans. Read more... News & Announcements Society Trustee Justice Brett Busby Nominations Welcomed for the Recent Honors and Awards We take note of honors bestowed Appointed to the Texas Supreme Court Texas Appellate Hall of Fame recently on seven distinguished Texas By Dylan O. Drummond By Jackie Stroh justices, judges, and lawyers. Sworn in March 20, The Hall of Fame Read more... Justice Busby is the first posthumously honors former United States advocates and judges Supreme Court clerk to who made a lasting Third Texas Women Judges’ Day serve as a Justice of the mark on appellate at the Texas Capitol Texas Court. practice in the State of By Megan LaVoie, Office of Court Read more... Justice Busby Texas. Read more... being sworn in Administration; and Dylan O. Drummond On April 8, the Texas Justice Jeff Brown and Former Manuel González Oropeza’s Gift of Senate honored and recognized the service Supreme Court Clerk Brantley Starr Law to the Harris County Law Library of the more than Sit for Senate Judiciary By David A. Furlow 1,500 women judges During the TSHA Annual throughout the state. Confirmation Hearing Meeting in February, the Read more... Women judges at By Dylan O. Drummond Hon. Manuel González the Capitol On April 10, Texas Supreme Court Oropeza gave our Justice Jeff Brown Society two important and former Supreme legal treatises. Membership & More Read more... Magistrate Court clerk Brantley Oropeza Starr sat for their joint Calendar of Events confirmation hearing to A Court First: the federal bench. Officers, Trustees & Court Liaison Read more... Justice Brown at Texas and Arkansas Supreme Courts the hearing 2018-19 Membership Upgrades Sit Jointly in Texarkana By Dylan O. Drummond 2018-19 New Member List For the first time, the Join the Society Texas and Arkansas Supreme Courts sat jointly in Texarkana, Visit the Society on Twitter and Facebook! hearing oral argument @SCOTXHistSocy before each court on successive days in late At the border FB: Texas Supreme Court Historical Society between the January. Read more... states © 2019 Texas Supreme Court Historical Society Message from the President Marcy Hogan Greer elcome to the Spring Journal (and my last letter as President!). For our Spring Board of WTrustees’ meeting, we took our show “on the road” to the San Felipe de Austin Historic Site, where Stephen F. Austin established a headquarters for his colony in Mexican Texas in 1823. The venue spawned some very creative ideas and inspired a robust discussion of ambitious plans for the Society. We also enjoyed a tour of the museum, and a real highlight was standing at the former location of William Barret Travis’s office. I am delighted to announce the Society’s establishment of the Larry McNeill Research Fellowship in Legal History in honor of Larry’s outstanding leadership as President and Trustee of the Society and President of the Texas State Historical Association. It is designed to encourage research and writing about Texas’s long legal history among judges and justices, law students and lawyers, and established and aspiring historians. Our amazing continuing educational programs continue. The Society presented a marvelous panel at the Texas State Historical Association’s annual meeting in February. Former Magistrate Manuel González Oropeza of the Mexican Federal Election Court spoke about the 1827 Constitution of Coahuila y Tejas, Bill Chriss regaled the audience with his six constitutions of Texas from 1836 to 1876, and our Executive Director, Sharon Sandle, provided an insightful commentary on the history of women in the law in Texas. Thank you again to David Furlow for bringing together such a stellar panel. On April 12, the Society held its biannual History of Texas Supreme Court Jurisprudence CLE program at the Texas Law Center. This year’s program was a half-day event that featured a fascinating presentation by Chad Baruch on Texas Supreme Court briefing through the decades and a “views-from-the-front-lines” panel discussion on the history of school finance cases by Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, Professor Albert Kauffman, and attorneys Richard Gray and David Thompson. Thank you to Lynne Liberato and Richard Orsinger for organizing our flagship program again this year. We continue to work closely with the Texas Heritage Magazine, and our Trustees Judge Mark Davidson and David Furlow, and our fabulous in-house editor, Marilyn Duncan, have submitted three articles for publication in that magazine at the end in May. Judge Davidson’s 1 piece is about the drive to preserve deteriorating court records, and he includes as examples a number of cases that would have been lost without preservation efforts. One of those is the last appeal decided by the Republic of Texas Supreme Court, which involved two well-known Texans—Republic Presidents Sam Houston and Mirabeau B. Lamar. Houston sued Lamar to recover for the loss of his personal furniture and effects when Lamar’s inebriated supporters trashed the Texas White House in Houston while celebrating Lamar’s inauguration. David’s article is about the life of Hortense Sparks Ward, the champion of women’s rights who served as Special Chief Justice of the All-Woman Texas Supreme Court in 1925. Marilyn contributed an article about the Spanish roots of women’s rights in Texas, particularly in the area of property rights. The magazine will also include a feature on the Society’s Taming Texas books and classroom project. Please mark your calendars for Friday, September 6, 2019, for the Society’s 24th Hemphill Dinner at the Four Seasons. We will be announcing our keynote speaker in the near future, and it is never to early to submit your sponsorships. I invite you to take advantage of the educational and social opportunities available to you as a member of the Society and look forward to seeing you all soon. MARCY HOGAN GREER is a partner in the appellate boutique of Alexander Dubose Jefferson & Townsend in Austin, Texas. Return to Journal Index 2 Executive Director’s Page The Threads of Texas Legal History Are Complex and Colorful Sharon Sandle his spring, the Society’s Board of Trustees met at the San Felipe de Austin THistorical Site for our spring Board meeting. For many of us, the highlight of our tour of San Felipe de Austin was standing on the site where William Barret Travis’s law office once stood. It reminded me once again of the crucial role of lawyers in the history of Texas. Lawyers shaped Texas’s history, but it’s also true that the unique nature of Texas shaped our legal history as well. The Society’s panel at the Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting this year in Corpus Christi featured papers by Dr. William J. Chriss and Judge Manuel González Oropeza tracing the history of the Texas Constitution from the 1824 Mexican Constitution through Texas’s six constitutions as both a republic and a state. I was honored to serve as commentator for this panel, and as I read Dr. Chriss’s and Judge Oropeza’s exemplary discussions of the Mexican and Texas constitutions, it became clear to me that there are common threads that shaped Texas law and illustrate, for me, how Texas’s unique characteristics shaped its legal history and how the Texas judicial system adapted.
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