The Texas Rangers

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This paper traces the history and origins of the Texas Rangers and explains how they eventually evolved into an elite state police force. The paper discusses the Texas Ranger's role in safeguarding the rights and freedoms of the people of Texas, their involvement in the African-American struggle for full citizenship and civil rights, their mythic status among the people of Texas and how they have come to represent, at least in the minds and hearts of their fellow citizens, all that is good and noble in the American Character.

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"While these activities could still be called "soldierly," they do represent the slow movement of the Rangers toward a genuine police role. After all, the protection of life and limb is deemed, by no less a document than the Declaration of Independence, to be necessary to the pursuit of happiness. The Texas Rangers, in something resembling their original form, proved useful so long as Texas was still sparsely settled and "wide-open" territory. But as modern ideas of policing and criminal justice began to develop, the Rangers saw dramatic changes take place in their organization and its role."

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