FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Mexican Constitution of 1821
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United States Constitution
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Mexican Constitution of 1824
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Mexican Declaration of Independence
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Detailed explanation-1: -The constitution of 1824 set a number of democratic goals and provided for a federal republic, consisting of 19 states, four territories, and the Mexico City federal district. Indigenous peoples lost their special colonial status, and accompanying protections, as wards of the government.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Constitution of 1824 of the Republic of Mexico provided that each state in the republic should frame its own constitution. The state of Coahuila and the former Spanish province of Texas were combined as the state of Coahuila and Texas.
Detailed explanation-3: -It introduced the system of federalism in a popular representative republic with Catholicism as official religion. The 1824 constitution does not expressly state the rights of citizens. The right to equality of citizens was restricted by the continuation of military and ecclesiastical courts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most Tejanos and Anglo-American settlers supported the 1824 Constitution and federalism because they believed it was important Texans to be able to decide how to govern themselves on local matters.