In 1920, the inaugural season of the National Football League (NFL), 11 veterans of Major League Baseball (MLB) (including George Halas and Jim Thorpe) became the first athletes to accomplish the feat. Since 1970, only seven athletes have done so, including Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders.
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836), the first Anglo-American constitution to govern Texas, was drafted by a convention of fifty-nine delegates who assembled at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1, 1836 (see CONVENTION OF 1836).
der this constitution, which reflected the sentiments of Radical Reconstructionists, not of most Texans. 1876: Texas Constitution Adopted at the end of Reconstruction and amended 474 times since, this is the constitution under which Texas currently functions. Highly restrictive and antigovernment, this constitution places strict limitations