1.10 - The First Republic of Texas
In 1813, San Antonians declared their independence from Spain. The 1813 Texas Declaration of Independence and the 1813 Texas Constitution show San Antonians drawing from both Hispanic and Anglo legal traditions to develop their own political ideology, shaped by and tailored to the hard realities of the Texas frontier.
Recommended resource:
Constitution of the Independent State of Texas. San Fernando, TX: April 17, 1813.
Constitución política de la monarquía española. Cádiz, Esp: March 19, 1812.
José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara
According to listener Adrian Flores, photo of a statue erected in 1974 in La Plaza Hidalgo in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, located today in the Congreso del Estado building in the same city.
