Being discontent with the repeated abuses of the Mexican Government and the Mexican Constitution of 1824, a group of young elected delegates met in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas in March 1836, with the purpose of declaring Texas independence from Mexico, forming a new government and starting working on a new Constitution that protected some rights such as the right to due process, to bear arms, to practice the religion they wanted and their right of freedom of speech and press.
