Ley Constitucional, a proclamation which helped trigger the Texas Revolution.
Miguel Barragán.
Ley Constitucional, a proclamation which helped trigger the Texas Revolution.
Mexico, 15 December 1835
4 printed pages, 11¾ x 8 inches, on one folding sheet, signed in type by Barragán as president and José Maria Ortiz Monasterio as secretary; stitch holes, early inked note on first page. In modern full gilt calf folding case.
The first printing of the first installment of the new Siete Leyes constitution which replaced the previous federal constitution, as issued by the Department of the Interior. The central presidential control introduced under this system caused armed unrest in several parts of Mexico, most notably in Texas.
This proclamation, headed "Que congreso general ha decretado la siguiente Ley Constitucional," is arranged into 15 articles, establishing the rights and responsibilities of Mexican citizenship. Article 13 concludes with a clause which was apparently directed at the Americans in Texas, translating to "The acquisitions of colonizers will be subject to the special rules of colonization." Other articles detail crimes which could result in the loss of citizenship. Land ownership by non-citizens is restricted.
Less than three months later, the Texas Declaration of Independence specifically addressed this new constitution as a major grievance: "The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America. In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation . . . now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood."
None traced in OCLC, and no others traced at auction.
Miguel Barragán.
Ley Constitucional, a proclamation which helped trigger the Texas Revolution.
Mexico, 15 December 1835
4 printed pages, 11¾ x 8 inches, on one folding sheet, signed in type by Barragán as president and José Maria Ortiz Monasterio as secretary; stitch holes, early inked note on first page. In modern full gilt calf folding case.
The first printing of the first installment of the new Siete Leyes constitution which replaced the previous federal constitution, as issued by the Department of the Interior. The central presidential control introduced under this system caused armed unrest in several parts of Mexico, most notably in Texas.
This proclamation, headed "Que congreso general ha decretado la siguiente Ley Constitucional," is arranged into 15 articles, establishing the rights and responsibilities of Mexican citizenship. Article 13 concludes with a clause which was apparently directed at the Americans in Texas, translating to "The acquisitions of colonizers will be subject to the special rules of colonization." Other articles detail crimes which could result in the loss of citizenship. Land ownership by non-citizens is restricted.
Less than three months later, the Texas Declaration of Independence specifically addressed this new constitution as a major grievance: "The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America. In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation . . . now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood."
None traced in OCLC, and no others traced at auction.
