The National Colonization Law of 1824 guaranteed to foreigners settling in Texas security for their persons and property. In order to protect the people who were colonizing Texas (colonists), the US government reserved ten coast leagues, and twenty leagues bordering on the United States from location. That was the main reason why the colonist were not allow to settle in these protected or reserved areas, for their own protection.
An organized prayer session in a public school is seen by some to be the government endorsing a particular religion
After the Civil War (1861-1865), the land was divided into small parcels and started to be rented or sharecropped. At that time slavery was condemned, so former slaves became those sharecroppers who rented the land of plantations in order to stand for a living by producing and sharing the crops. The owners or the new sharecropped demolished slaves’ old housing and built new ones near the main house. Besides, owners had to start paying taxes in cash which produced an impoverishment of plantations.
The Catholic Church wanted to end this because taking money for gifts given by the Holy Spirit was seen as a grave sin.
The Social Contract and Government
The fundamental basis for government and law in this system is the concept of the social contract, according to which human beings begin as individuals in a state of nature, and create a society by establishing a contract whereby they agree to live together in harmony for their mutual benefit, after which they are said to live in a state of society. This contract involves the retaining of certain natural rights, an acceptance of restrictions of certain liberties, the assumption of certain duties, and the pooling of certain powers to be exercised collectively.
