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The terms and names underlined are defined. Use hover to check. All definitions obtained from additional Internet sources. This is yet another copy of the Constitution but displayed IMO in a form easier to read and understand. Using simple HTML code I've found that by spreading out the text I can better understand. That means displaying the exact text in outline form. The "real" meaning nowadays of course is in the Court decisions.

A handful of Kendleton residents were among several dozen to speak out against the Trans-Texas Corridor at a public hearing Monday night in Rosenberg. “I personally think it's a slap in the face for Texas to take the land for pennies on the dollar, to put a road on it and to make you pay a toll for it,” said Jeremy West, one of the speakers from Kendleton. The Trans-Texas Corridor is a proposal for a network of highways, rail lines and utilities throughout Texas that would be financed by private interests who would seek to profit through tolls and...

State Sen. Glen Hegar says he opposes a route that would bring the mammoth Trans Texas Corridor through his district. The Texas Department of Transportation has kicked off a series of public meetings to discuss the project. Meetings are scheduled for Tuesday in Hempstead (6:30 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 22892 Mack Washington St.) and Jan. 29 in Bellville (at the Austin County fairgrounds, also beginning at 6:30 p.m.). No meetings are scheduled in Washington County, which likely wouldn’t be impacted much by the highway project. Much of the discussion in public meetings already held centers on Interstate...

Partly because I missed a week for various reasons, this week I offer something a bit different: fundamental to the practice of geology and mineralogy, but far different from pictures of volcanoes, geological formations, or remote-sensing from space. These are thin-sections; slices out of rocks viewed with a microscope (frequently with a polarizer to bring out remarkable and beautiful colors and patterns). First up: I don't know what this is, but there's a lot in it! Thin section from the Nakhla (Martian) meteorite, primarily pyroxene and feldspar: Monzonite porphyry: there's a bit more information on this one: "This rock is...