Who Rules the Texas House?: How Constituent Sovereignty Has Been Usurped Over Time

In 1846, the first session of the Texas Legislature, the parliamentary rules for the Texas House of Representatives were only ten pages long. In 2023 the rules for the Texas House of Representatives were over 400 pages long (including introductory pages and precedents). So, what effect do all these additional pages have on representative government? That is the question which this book addresses.