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The Texas Declaration of Independence. This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2009) The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and formally signed the following day after errors were noted in the text. Contents 1 Background 2 Development 3 Signatures 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 External links // Background In October 1835, settlers in Mexican Texas launched the Texas Revolution. However, within Texas, many struggled with understanding what was the ultimate goal of the Revolution. Some believed that the goal should be total independence from Mexico, while others sought the reimplementation of the Mexican Constitution of 1824 (which offered greater freedoms than the centralist government declared in Mexico the prior year).[1] To settle the issue, a convention was called for March 1836. This convention differed from the previous Texas councils of 1832, 1833, and the 1835 Consultation. Many of the delegates to the 1836 convention were young men who had only recently arrived in Texas, although many of them had participated in one of the battles in 1835. Most of the delegates were members of the War Party and were adamant that Texas must declare its independence from Mexico.[2] Forty-one delegates arrived in Washington-on-the-Brazos on February 28.[2] Development The convention was convened on March 1 with Richard Ellis as president.[3] The delegates selected a committee of five to draft a declaration of independence; the committee was led by George Childress and also included Edward Conrad, James Gaines, Bailey Hardeman, and Collin McKinney. The committee submitted its draft within a mere 24 hours, leading historians to speculate that Childress had written much of it before his arrival at the Convention.[4] The declaration was approved on March 2 with no debate. Based primarily on the writings of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, the declaration proclaimed that the Mexican government "ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived"[5] and complained about "arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny".[6] The declaration officially established the Republic of Texas. Among others, the declaration mentions the following reasons for the separation: The 1824 Constitution of Mexico establishing a federal republic had been usurped and changed into a centralist military dictatorship by Gen.Antonio López de Santa Anna. The Mexican government had invited settlers to Texas and promised them constitutional liberty and republican government, but then reneged on these guarantees. Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo, and thus the affairs of Texas were decided at a great distance from the province and in the Spanish language. Political rights to which the settlers had previously been accustomed, such as the right to keep and bear arms and the right to trial by jury, were denied. No system of public education had been established. The settlers were not allowed freedom of religion. Based upon the United States Declaration of Independence, the Texas Declaration also contains many memorable expressions of American political principles: "the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen." "our arms ... are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments." Signatures Replica of the building at Washington-on-the-Brazos where the Texas Declaration was signed. An inscription reads: "Here a Nation was born". The New Republic Fifty-nine men signed the Declaration of Independence. Ten of them had lived in Texas for more than six years, while one-quarter of them had been in the province for less than a year.[7] Richard Ellis, President of the Convention and Delegate from Red River Charles B. Stewart Thomas Barnett John S. D. Byrom José Francisco Ruiz José Antonio Navarro Jesse B. Badgett William D. Lacy William Menefee John Fisher Matthew Caldwell William Motley Lorenzo de Zavala Stephen H. Everett George W. Smyth Elijah Stapp Claiborne West William. B. Scates Michel B. Menard Augustine B. Hardin John Wheeler Bunton Thomas J. Gazley Robert M. Coleman Sterling C. Robertson Benjamin Briggs Goodrich George Washington Barnett James G. Swisher Jesse Grimes Samuel Rhoads Fisher John W. Moore John W. Bower Samuel A. Maverick (from Bejar) Sam P. Carson Andrew Briscoe James B. Woods James Collinsworth Edwin Waller Asa Brigham George C. Childress Bailey Hardeman Robert Potter Thomas Jefferson Rusk Charles S. Taylor John S. Roberts Robert Hamilton Collin McKinney Albert Hamilton Latimer James Power Erastus Smith, known as "El Sordo" Sam Houston David Thomas Edward Conrad Martin Parmer Edwin O. Legrand Stephen W. Blount Robert Thomas 'James' Gaines William Clark, Jr. Sydney O. Pennington William Carroll Crawford John Turner Herbert Simms Kimble, Secretary See also Texas Independence Day Timeline of the Republic of Texas Notes ^ Roberts and Olson (2001), p. 98. ^ a b Roberts and Olson (2001), p. 142. ^ Davis (1982), p. 38. ^ Roberts and Olson (2001), p. 144. ^ Roberts and Olson (2001), p. 145. ^ Roberts and Olson (2001), p. 146. ^ Scott (2000), p. 122. References Davis, Joe Tom (1982), Legendary Texians, 1, Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, ISBN 0890153361  Roberts, Randy; Olson, James S. (2001), A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory, The Free Press, ISBN 0684835444  Scott, Robert (2000), Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press, ISBN 9781556226915  External links Wikisource has original text related to this article: Texas Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence, 1836[dead link] from Gammel's Laws of Texas, Vol. I. hosted by the Portal to Texas History. 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