Based on the following etymological information, the word roots from the word delegates, meaning " a person authorized to represent others" is Latin legare
" send with commission".
The Declaration of November 7, 1835, passed by the Consultation announced that the Texan war against Mexico principally intended to restore the Mexican Constitution of 1824, abrogated by the actions of President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and to achieve separate Mexican statehood for Texas
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White Southerners defended the institution of slavery on a number of fronts. They said that it was necessary and they said that it was not forbidden, but they also argued that it was a positive good.
Southerners argued that slavery was an economic necessity. They argued that there was no way to get anyone to do the sort of labor that was needed for tobacco (and later cotton) cultivation without coercing them.
Relating to interaction with other people especially for pleasure a busy social life.