Constitution Adoption
- When
- March 16–17, 1836 (disputed)
- Where
- Washington-on-the-Brazos
The convention adopted the Constitution of the Republic of Texas in mid-March 1836, modeled after the U.S. Constitution. Sources conflict on whether adoption occurred March 16 or March 17, 1836.
The constitution served as the supreme law of Texas from 1836 to 1845 and was modeled after the United States Constitution. The supplied passage states the convention adopted the document on March 16, 1836, and adjourned the next day, while the legacy record and event scope date adoption to March 17, 1836. This occurrence-date conflict is preserved rather than resolved.
Sources
- Constitution of the Republic of Texas Wikipedia, revision of 2026-03-31
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.