Here's an excellent discussion about the issue, and the issue of 'legislative intent' (which I think is a weird concept when a proposition is voted upon by people who don't necessarily have this intent in mind).
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/002617.html
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I suppose that this will be a matter for the Texas Supreme Court, not the Supreme Court of the United State, so we may never find out what Justice Scalia thinks about it. Still, it will be interesting to see if the Texas Supreme Court makes intentionalist arguments in interpreting the amendment.
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