Texas
Texas (/ˈtɛksəs/, locally /-sɪz/; Spanish: Texas
Texas or Tejas [ˈtexas]) is the second largest state in the United States
United States by both area and population. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas
Texas shares borders with the U.S
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A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. Legislatures form important parts of most governments; in the separation of powers model, they are often contrasted with the executive and judicial branches of government. Laws enacted by legislatures are known as legislation. Legislatures observe and steer governing actions and usually have exclusive authority to amend the budget or budgets involved in the process. The members of a legislature are called legislators
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Coordinated Universal Time
Universal Time (abbreviated to UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean solar time at 0° longitude;[1] it does not observe daylight saving time
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An upper house, sometimes called a senate, is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature (or one of three chambers of a tricameral legislature), the other chamber being the lower house.[1] The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smaller and often has more restricted power than the lower house
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The Spanish language
Spanish language (/ˈspænɪʃ/ ( listen); Español (help·info)), also called the Castilian language[4] (/kæˈstɪliən/ ( listen), castellano (help·info)), is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain
Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin
Latin America and Spain. It is usually considered the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.[5][6][7][8][9] Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire in the 5th century
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A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house.[1] Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power. The lower house typically is the more numerous of the two chambers
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English is a West Germanic language
West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England
England and is now a global lingua franca.[4][5] Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea. It is closely related to the Frisian languages, but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic
North Germanic language), as well as by Latin
Latin and Romance languages, especially French.[6] English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century, are called Old English
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PopulationArea Density Ethnic identity Foreign-born Income Spanish speakers By decadeUrban areasPopulous cities and metropolitan areasMetropolitan areas574 Primary Statistical Areas 174 Combined Statistical Areas 929 Core Based Statistical Areas 389 Metropolitan Statistical Areas 541 Micropolitan Statistical AreasMegaregionsSee also North American metro areas World citiesv t eThe United States
United States
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (GOP). Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest political party.[16] The Democrats' dominant worldview was once social conservatism and economic liberalism while populism was its leading characteristic in the rural South. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate in the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party, leading to a switch of political platforms between the Democratic and Republican Party and Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson being elected as the first fiscally progressive Democrat. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A Texan is a person who originated from, or who lives in the state of Texas, in the United States. Texan may also refer to:Contents1 Aircraft 2 Entertainment 3 Newspapers 4 Ships 5 Sports5.1 Current sports teams 5.2 Former sports teams and former names of sports teams6 Other uses 7 See also 8 ReferencesAircraft[edit]T-6 Texan, World War II era training plane T-6 Texan II, airplane used by the United States Air Force for basic pilot training Fly Synthesis Texan, an Italian ultralight aircraftEntertainment[edit]TexA.N.S., an early band of Maynard James Keenan of the band Tool The Texan (fictional character), a character in Catch-22 The Texans, 1938 film starring Joan Bennett and Randolph Scott The Texan, CBS TV series from 1958–1960 starring Rory Calhoun The Lucky Texan, a 1934 Lonestar Films B-movie Western film featuring John WayneNewspapers[edit]The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of the University of Texas at
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This is a complete list of the states of the United States
United States and its major territories ordered by total area, land area, and water area. The water area numbers include inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes, and territorial waters
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The elevation of U.S. states and territories may be described in several ways. These include:the elevation of their highest point; the elevation of their lowest point and the difference between (range of) their highest points and lowest points.The following list is a comparison of elevation absolutes in the United States. Data include interval measures of highest and lowest elevation for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.[1] Which state is "highest" and "lowest" is determined by the definition of "high" and "low". For instance, Alaska
Alaska could be regarded as the highest state because Denali, at 20,310 feet (6,190.5 m), is the highest point in the United States. However, Colorado, with the highest mean elevation of any state as well as the highest low point, could also be considered a candidate for "highest state". Determining which state is "lowest" is equally problematic
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All of the United States' 50 states have a state motto, as do the District of Columbia
District of Columbia and three US territories. A motto is a phrase intended to formally describe the general motivation or intention of an organization. State mottos can sometimes be found on state seals or state flags. Some states have officially designated a state motto by an act of the state legislature, whereas other states have the motto only as an element of their seals. The motto of the United States itself is In God We Trust, proclaimed by Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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This is a list of the five most populous incorporated places in each U.S. state
U.S. state by population, as of the 2015 United States
United States Census
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Majority (238) Republican (238)Minority (193) Democratic (193)Vacant (4) Vacant (4)Length of termTwo yearsElectionsVoting systemFirst-past-the-post in most states; nonpartisan blanket primary with a majoritarian second round in 3 statesLast electionNovember 8, 2016Next electionNovember 6, 2018Redistricting State legislatures or redistricting commissions, varies by stateMeeting placeHouse of Representatives chamber United States
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This is a list of the time offsets by U.S. states and territories, and the District of Columbia. For more about the time zones of the U.S. see time in the United States. Most states are entirely contained within one time zone
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