It gave yearly authoritative sessions, debilitated grower controlled nearby government, and centalized the state funded educational system. The tradition in 1868 reflected little of the dread of incorporated government control that was later to end up plainly the sign of the Texas government. The constitution it proposed was confirmed in 1869. It was to fill in as the instrument of government for a period that most Texans and conventional students of history would see as the most degenerate and damaging in the state's history.