Constitutional courts are established by which instrument?

• A. The Texas Constitution
• B. Legislative acts
• C. Federal constitution
• D. Municipal charters

Answer: (A)

Constitutional courts are created by the state’s founding document, which fixes their existence, structure, and powers. In Texas, the Texas Constitution establishes the state’s constitutional courts (such as the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, and other high courts), defining how they operate. The legislature can create other courts or change their jurisdiction through statutes, but those would be statutory rather than constitutional. Municipal charters create local courts, and the federal constitution would create federal courts, not Texas’s constitutional ones. So, the instrument that establishes constitutional courts is the Texas Constitution.