Essay On Texas Government

In the American viewpoint, Texas is seen as the state that enhances their western characteristics alongside with their historic past of events placed in significant monuments. This was to preserve their identity which had long gone through vast disputes in the past regarding to the creation of the state. “Texans were even more determined than most states to recover their past. No other region of the country had experienced such a convoluted history.” (A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory, 205) Texas had gained their independence from Mexico in 1836 and have remained a separate nation for about nearly a decade. The Republic of Texas was then granted their official recognition as a state in 1845 through the annexation of the United States of America.

When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in 1787, the United States just had 13 states. The Founding Fathers believed that more states would want to join the Union in the future. They saw that it would be significant for new states to have the same form of government as the original states had. Since then there are now over 50 states that have similar characteristics which were developed centuries ago; although, resembling the creation of new ideas and inventions, current state government had many problems from being the way it is today, it also has many important features that benefit many people, as well as plays an important role in how American democracy and government works.

Mexico was declared independent in 1821 following a series of revolts and political turmoil due to Spanish colonial rule. The independent land of Mexico sought to secure its borders against illegal American

In 1836, the new Texas Constitution was written during the war for independence which had a separation of governmental powers, a bill of rights, a bicameral legislature. This had many adopted aspects from the Spanish and Mexican laws. In 1845, was modeled after other southern states and therefore referred to as the Statehood Constitution (Newell, 44). It embraced democratic principles and was influenced by Jacksonian democracy. In 1861, the Constitution was modified when Texas joined the Confederate States of America, this was called The Civil War Constitution. This is when Texas seceded to join the confederacy. In 1866, was on the losing side of the war and Texas was ordered by Andrew Jackson to revise the document. This new document abolished slavery and declared secession illegal. In 1869, reconstruction of the Constitution happened yet again because radical reconstructionists in Washington wanted southern states to write new constitutions with tougher standards. The present constitution the document was careful about what government could do and couldn’t do. This document has changed a bit and has had over 467 revisions but it is still the document that is used present day.

The war with Mexico abruptly started with the annexation of Texas. Though the land was originally Mexico’s, the U.S had taken part of the territory in the belief of Manifest Destiny. America thought of it as god’s

In 1821 mexico finally declared itself independent from spain, mexico stretched from guatemala to oregon and was the same size of the united states. Mexico was catholic and anti-slavery and was very controlling over texas because they were still apart of mexico. Texas was pro-slavery and did not want mexican authorities to control them. After the battle of the alamo where mexican troops attacked and killed all of the texan defenders, the texas were angered and wanted to be independent.

John Cornyn is the Senior Senator. He is a Republican and has served since November 30, 2002. The next election will be held in 2020 to elect a new Senior Senator. He was ranked as one of the most conservative U.S. Senators. He sponsored a bill so the police would be able to obtain DNA from anyone arrested or detained. He also voted for a constitutional ban on desecrating a flag and reauthorization of the Patriot Act and extending wiretapping. He voted to ban partial birth abortions. He also voted against the Affordable Care Act.

The first reason Texas was justified in declaring independence was that Mexico was not following the Constitution of 1824.The Constitution of 1824 stated that “the government…shall be divided for its exercise in three powers.” (Doc. A) Mexico’s government was set up as “the form of Republican representative, popular federal.” (Doc. A) President Bustamante issued a Decree on April 6, 1830, that severely limited the rights of the Anglo settlers. (Doc. B)

There were several extremely fascinating aspects regarding the history of Texas found in Passionate Nation's pages 195-219 and Major Problems in Texas History's pages 146-150 and 162-167. One of the most salient of these was the fact that Texas was its own independent nation. This fact was fairly startling for a number of different reasons. One of these is the fact that the United States allowed another nation to be created within its borders. This is something rarely done in history, and probably never done again in the history of the United States.

After Texas won the war, they began to create an Independent nation, but they wanted to join with the United states. Cause Texas was a slave state, and Mexico didn't recognize Texas as an Independent Nation. That why many U.S. citizens rejected Texas.

According to document C it states, “The annexation of Texas to the United States was inadmissible for both legal and security reasons.” Some people and I believe that Mexico was in the wrong because the U.S. annexed Texas after they won their independence which makes sense. However, the Mexican government didn’t think the American government where “bandits who came upon a traveler.” Also, an American citizen, Charles Sumner, turned from his country and supported Mexico because he believed that the Mexico should have charge U.S. citizens with “disgraceful robbery.” Mexico abolished slavery and Charles Sumner disliked the idea of slavery however the cotton in the factories that made his clothes came from slaves.

Texas in 1821 was part of Mexico when Mexico won its independence from Spain. After the Mexicans gained independence the lands were lightly populated, they lacked the people to make communities, equipment to settle and resources. In order to help develop parts of its vast territory the Mexicans invited and encouraged settlers from the United States to come to Texas to take up lands. Mexican leaders had hoped that these settlers would eventually become Mexican citizens, develop the lands without the usage of slaves, obey their laws and also be converted to the main religion of Mexico which is the Roman Catholic faith. They also hoped that these new citizens would then be expected to defend their land from possible invasions. This was the main reason for the encouragement of American settlement in Texas.

In April 1830, wary of the rapidly swelling deluge of immigrants from the United States, the Mexican government legislated against further settlement in Coahuila and Texas by Anglo-Americans and reimposed the suspended tariff. Over roughly the next

War 1846 - 48 between Mexico and the United States was a military conflict related with the annexation of Texas to the United States territory. Mexico saw the conflict with Texas as an "expansionist sentiment" of the United States. The Mexican government did not stop to consider the region as part of its territory, so that the annexation of Texas was regarded as an affront to the interests and national dignity.

When the United States admitted Texas in 1845, Mexico’s new leader would not even meet with the Americans because the nation’s government was in such turmoil that they were too weak