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  2. Government of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The government of Texas operates under the Constitution of Texas and consists of a unitary democratic state government operating under a presidential system that uses the Dillon Rule, as well as governments at the county and municipal levels. Austin is the capital of Texas. The State Capitol resembles the United States Capitol in Washington, D ...

  3. Texas Courts of Appeals - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system. In Texas, all cases appealed from district and county courts, criminal and civil, go to one of the fourteen intermediate courts of appeals, with one exception: death penalty cases. The latter are taken directly to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the court of last resort for ...

  4. Same-sex marriage in Texas - Wikipedia

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    The court further ruled that district courts in Texas did not have subject-matter jurisdiction to hear a same-sex divorce case. J.B. appealed to the Texas Supreme Court in February 2011. On July 3, 2013, the Texas Supreme Court sua sponte ordered supplemental merits briefing in light of United States v. Windsor.

  5. Judicial system of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The judicial system of Vietnam comprises the "people's courts", military tribunals, and people's procuracies. The highest court in the country is the Supreme People's Court. Underneath the Supreme People's Court are three levels of courts: the superior people's courts ( toà án nhân dân cấp cao ), of which there are three; the provincial ...

  6. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Dempsie Henley State Jail (Female) Pam Lychner State Jail (originally Atascocita Unit) Lucille G. Plane State Jail (Female) Region IV. Fabian Dale Dominguez State Jail. Renaldo V. Lopez State Jail. Joe Ney State Jail (originally the Hondo Unit) Rogelio Sanchez State Jail. Region V.

  7. List of United States federal courthouses in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Texas.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.

  8. Sign system - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A sign system is a key concept in semiotics and is used to refer to any system of signs and relations between signs. [1] The term language is frequently used as a synonym for a sign-system. However, the term sign-system is considered preferable [by whom?] to the term language for a number of reasons.

  9. List of Interstate Highways in Texas - Wikipedia

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    The longest segment of Interstate Highway in Texas is I-10 at 878.6 miles (1,414.0 km); the shortest is I-110 at 0.9 miles (1.4 km). The construction of the Interstate Highway System in Texas began well before these routes were designated as Interstate Highways. A 50-mile (80 km) stretch of I-45 between Galveston and Houston was opened in 1951 ...