The legal authority to annex Texas cities, the reasons why Texas has been a liberal annexer as well as the reasons why the pace of annexation has slowed since 1970 are numerous. In retrospect, this article will discuss and highlight some of the more subtle points of these statements. Annexation was, for a long time, a typical procedure in Texas. Everything from anthropomorphic ideologies to governmental necessities are commonly discussed among municipalities and councils that govern and manage Texas cities as to why a specific location should be annexed. Initially, this country was founded by Masonics who strongly believed in a tenet called E pluribus Unum, meaning “many ones.” As this statement suggests, we were the formational creation of many states into one coherent union. Annexation works in much the same way, in that a larger body envelops and consumes the smaller into itself, so that the larger can flourish. As one might say of the residents of our own city of Houston, Bellaire was only recently annexed, much to the dismay and objection of its citizens. This would exclude the ideology of Thomas Aquinas, as he discussed Veritatis Splendor Aterna Infernum, meaning that the splendor of truth is an eternal hell. The truth being that the people of Bellaire didn't really have a coincidental choice in the matter and therefore had to live through the hell of Houston politics as an example of Texas annexation. The end result meant for them that their police, waste disposal and fire departments would now be governed by Houston as a whole. In the 1970s, Texas laws changed again, not allowing anyone to annex larger areas of land and thus significantly crippling the governing bodies. During the 1970s, Texas cities maintained their tax base through land annexation, and subsequently, when the tax-free waters began to dry up, cities began to decline, from nature very similar to the decay of the North. The government of Texas (at the state and local levels, respectively) was to preserve the health of the state's major cities in the face of economic and demographic changes. It is with this in mind that our perspectives have been reoriented during this period towards the consumption of our cities and, in turn, allowed Texas cities to grow and rebirth..