My daughter, with a JD from the University of Texas School of Law, tells me that the provision was not included when Texas was readmitted to the Union after the War of Yankee Aggression. But she's been known to be wrong... :) I'll ask her husband, who also has a JD from UT Law. 'Course he's from New Jersey, and sometimes asks me questions about Texas Law (Both are licensed to practice in Texas as well, and they both passed the bar on the first try, in different years though, he graduated first, but she took the *Texas* Bar exam first. He just passed his CPA exams as well She just had my grand daughter ;). My younger daughter is a grad student at UT, but both daughters are graduates of Austin College, the oldest continuously operating college in Texas, IIRC, although it and Baylor are very close in that regard)
My daughter attends Southwestern in Georgetown, and it also claims to be the oldest college in Texas. The operative words here may be "continuously operating". SWU has quite a colorful history. She's home for the weekend and when I mentioned your post she demanded I defend her university's honor, lol. By the way, she visited Austin twice during her college search (along with Trinity and Southwestern), and it is a wonderful school. Your daughters are proof of that.