On March 2, 1836, the Consultation, as the delegates called themselves, passed a resolution declaring Texas independent. The government of Mexico was chastised for many failures.
My favorite:
It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government.
During my lifetime, state schools have been funded not so much by the Texas Legislature as by the courts, enforcing a series of judicial orders in lawsuits filed by citizens who were complaining about the same thing.
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