Texas V White

Texas v. White in the United States

Texas v. White 7 Wallace

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According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 543 TEXAS v. WHITE 7 Wallace 700 (1869) In 1867 the Court accepted original jurisdiction of Texas v. White because one party was a state (Article III, section 2) . So doing, the Court raised again, as in ex parte milligan (1866) and the test oath cases, a possibility of judicial intervention into
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Texas v. White, United States Supreme Court decision that was handed down in 1869, dealing with the legal status of Confederate and Reconstruction governments. The provisional Reconstruction government of Texas sued for the return of property sold by the Confederate government during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The case raised the question of which, if either, of the two governments was the valid, legal representative of Texas with the power to control state finances. The Supreme Court ruled that since secession was unconstitutional, the Confederate state government had never existed as a legal body. It therefore had no right to dispose of state property. The court also ruled that the provisional postwar government was a valid legal state government with the right to sue in the name of the people of Texas.” (1)

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