{"id":70235,"date":"2023-10-23T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=70235"},"modified":"2023-10-23T05:55:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T10:55:58","slug":"sovereign-states-and-independent-republics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/sovereign-states-and-independent-republics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sovereign States and Independent Republics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sovereign States and Independent\u00a0Republics<\/a><\/h1>\n

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At one time, the Republic of Texas was a sovereign state in North America. It existed from 2 March 1826 to 19 February 1846.\u00a0 It shared a border with the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of the Rio Grande (another Mexican breakaway republic), and the United States.\u00a0 Mexico considered Texas a state in rebellion during its entire existence.<\/h2>\n

The dispute between Texas and Mexico wasn\u2019t merely about Anglo settlers making trouble inside Mexico.\u00a0 While that was true, to an extent, the issues extended well beyond the white settlements.\u00a0 The Mexican state of\u00a0Coahuila y Tejas<\/em>\u00a0(and others) declared its independence from Mexico because the central government adopted centralist policies that abolished the autonomy of several states within the Mexican Federal Republic.<\/h2>\n

Reacting to several states who declared their independence, Mexican president Antonio de Padua Mar\u00eda Severino L\u00f3pez de Santa Anna y P\u00e9rez de Lebr\u00f3n, also known as simply Antonio L\u00f3pez de Santa Anna, ever the political opportunist, mounted an aggressive campaign to bring the rebels \u201cback into the fold.\u201d\u00a0 Texas was no exception \u2014 it was only the last of several stops.\u00a0 After his capture by the Texians outside of San Jacinto, Texas, Santa Anna admitted defeat and granted Texas its freedom (in exchange for his life, no doubt).\u00a0 While Texians reacted positively to the acknowledgment, Mexico\u2019s Congress rejected it out of hand.\u00a0 No agreement obtained under duress, they argued, was valid.<\/h2>\n

Earlier, however, elected president of Mexico in 1833, Santa Anna was far outside his comfort zone.\u00a0 He managed to take a failing government and make things worse.\u00a0 And who could blame him?\u00a0 When he assumed the mantle of the presidency, Mexico was already bankrupt.\u00a0 There was no money in the treasury and around eleven million pesos of debt.\u00a0 Granted, in 1833, eleven million pesos was only equivalent to about $109,430.95, but it was a lot of money for the Mexicans.\u00a0 Greatly annoyed, bored with politics, and perhaps a bit frightened of failure,\u00a0El President\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0Santa Anna packed his bag and went on a hiatus for a time \u2014 leaving his country in the hands of his vice presidents.\u00a0 The first was Valentin G\u00f3mez Furias, a liberal who attempted to implement sweeping changes.\u00a0 All he managed to do, however, was irritate the ruling elite.\u00a0 They saw Furias as a dangerous radical who had to be stopped.\u00a0 At this point, though, Santa Anna was himself a liberal.\u00a0 By giving Furias responsibility for necessary reforms, he could deny culpability and save his reputation among the powerful elite.<\/h2>\n

In May 1834, Santa Anna ordered the disarmament of the civic militia and urged Congress to abolish the controversial \u201cLaw of the Case,\u201d a decree issued in June 1833 that permitted the exile of individuals who opposed political reforms, and which applied to anyone the government chose, that is, lumping every political opponent together as a means of getting rid of them.\u00a0 It is also known as the\u00a0Law of Political Ostracism.<\/em><\/h2>\n

On 12 June, Santa Anna dissolved Congress and announced his decision to form a new Catholic, centralist, and conservative government.\u00a0 He had managed to broker a deal with the Catholic archdiocese whereby, in exchange for preserving the privileges of the church (and army), the Church would make a monthly donation to the government of around 40,000 pesos.\u00a0 Thus, the supporters of Santa Anna had managed to achieve what radicals had failed to do: force the Church to support the Republic\u2019s fiscal requirements.<\/h2>\n

After firing Furias in 1835, Santa Anna designated his new vice president, Miguel Barrag\u00e1n, acting president, and returned to his hacienda.\u00a0 Barrag\u00e1n replaced the 1824 Constitution with a new instrument called The Seven Laws (Siete Leyes<\/em>).\u00a0 Meanwhile, Santa Anna was happy to remain in the background, uninvolved in the conservative effort to establish a unitary central government.\u00a0 Efforts to replace the Constitution of 1824 angered more than the Texians.\u00a0 Nationally, the centralist movement was a political disaster.<\/h2>\n

States in rebellion included Alta California, Nuevo Mexico, Tabasco, Sonora, Coahuila y Tejas, San Luis Potosi, Quer\u00e9taro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoac\u00e1n, Yucat\u00e1n, Jalisco, Nuevo Le\u00f3n, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas.\u00a0 Several of these states formed their governments: the Republic of the Rio Grande, the Republic of Yucat\u00e1n, and the Republic of Texas.<\/h2>\n

Historians note that the fierce resistance of these rebellious states was possibly fueled by Santa Anna\u2019s reprisals, which may have violated every human right imaginable.\u00a0 Had Santa Anna treated these people differently, it is possible that a revolution in Texas would never have occurred.\u00a0 As it happened, the Zacatecas militia was the largest and best armed of Mexican states.\u00a0 It took no time for Santa Anna to roll them up, take 3,000 prisoners, and begin executing them.\u00a0 It was a different story when El President\u00e9 Santa Anna arrived in Texas.\u00a0 After defeating 257 Texians at the Alamo with an army exceeding 2,000 men, the Texas Revolution turned out quite differently.<\/h2>\n

The United States annexed Texas on 29 December, 1845 and was admitted to the union as the 28th State on the same day.\u00a0 Formal state power was transferred to the State of Texas on 19 February 1846.\u00a0 At one time, the Republic of Texas was a sovereign state in North America \u2014 but it wasn\u2019t the only state to have been a sovereign republic.<\/h2>\n

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