Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869)

LINK TO CASE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1134912565671891096

SIGNIFICANCE:

  1. Defines the term “state” as consisting of people, territory, and government.
  2. Defines what a “state” means in a geographical sense.
  3. Establishes the political sense of “state” as the principal sense, rather than the geographical sense.