On March 2, 1836, Texas declared its independence from Mexico. Like all children in Texas public schools, I received a year of Texas History, where I learned important things like the “true story” of the Yellow Rose of Texas. I also studied Texas Independence and read of the earlier “Green Revolution, but I have never read the actual Texas Declaration of Independence until this day. (Bad Texan!)

Two things stand out when reading the Texas Declaration of Independence: First, it was obviously greatly influenced by the American Declaration penned by Thomas Jefferson 60 years earlier. Second, the Texans could have used an editor.

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.

“Evil rulers!” I think George W. Bush read the Texas Declaration. Also, note it is “lives, liberty, and property.” None of this coy “pursuit of happiness” business. Get your mitts off my stuff! We are a straight-shooting people, both verbally and ballistically.

Among the grievances listed are the lack of trial by jury, attempts to disarm the colonists, violation of due process, quartering troops, prohibition of freedom of religion, and lack of representation in the Mexican government.  Tyranny really only has a couple of notes, doesn’t it?
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One section near the end struck me, “We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government.”

Ouch.

Anyway, Texans, in particular, should read the whole thing, as the kids say.  Check out the signature page.  The columns are divided by a cute lil’ curvy line that wouldn’t look out of place on a middle-schoolers notebook.

(Please note, this is 2 days in a row I’ve blogged. Somebody should give me a cookie!)