How would power be divided in a new Texas government?

The way it is divided now, and the way free republics have always divided it: among separate branches, between state and local levels, and ultimately resting with the people. Independence keeps that structure and makes it fully answerable to Texans.

Three branches, already separated by the constitution

Texas does not concentrate power, and it would not start. The Texas Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, divides the powers of government into three distinct departments, legislative, executive, and judicial, and forbids anyone in one department from exercising the powers of another, except where the constitution expressly allows it. The Legislature makes the laws, the executive carries them out, and the courts interpret them, each checking the others. That separation is already in force, and it carries straight through independence as the backbone of a self-governing Texas.

Power split between Austin and the local level

Authority in Texas is not all gathered in the capital, either. It is shared with 254 county governments, more than any other state in the union, along with more than a thousand cities and towns and other local districts, each with its own elected officials close to the people they serve. That layered design keeps decisions near the Texans they affect. Independence preserves it, and removing the federal layer actually pushes more authority toward the governments closest to home, not toward a distant center.

The people hold the power that matters most

Underneath every branch and every level sits the real source of authority. Article 1, Section 2 of the Texas Constitution states that all political power is inherent in the people, and that they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform, or abolish their government. The branches and the local governments exercise power on loan from the people, who grant it through elections and can take it back the same way. That is the deepest division of power there is: not power handed down to the people, but power that begins with them and is parceled out to a government that answers to them.

Refinements are for Texans to make

The framework is strong and already in place, but how an independent Texas fine-tunes it, the exact shape of each branch, the balance between state and local authority, any structural reforms, is a decision for the people and the lawmakers they elect. The movement takes no partisan position on those choices. It works to put the whole structure under Texan control and trusts Texans to refine it through their own institutions.

The bottom line

Power in a new Texas government is divided among three branches, shared between the state and hundreds of local governments, and rooted in the people, exactly as Texas's own constitution already provides. Independence keeps the design and makes every part of it answer to Texans.