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User ID: 80102529 United States 03/02/2021 12:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas - 185 years ago The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas in General Convention
Author George Childress
at the Town of Washington on the 2nd day of March 1836
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.
Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the United States federal government. |
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User ID: 79266946 United States 03/02/2021 12:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas - 185 years ago History repeats itself! NJman1619 |
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User ID: 77583011 United States 03/02/2021 10:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas - 185 years ago And then they officially rejoined ten years later. Not anutter cig nature. |