When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.
The above is the opening phrase of the Declaration. It's as relevant today as it was in 1836.
The full version can be found here. Or you can go here for an interactive site related to Texas Independence.
(Trivia: a 175th anniversary is known as, among other terms, a Dodransbicentennial or a Septaquintaquinquecentennial.)
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I was thinking of the sesquicentennial last weekend. I had just moved to Texas the year before and couldn't figure out why they marketed the occasion with such a ridiculously long and seldom heard word, when '150th Anniversary' seemed so much simpler. I remember there was every manner of commemorative item brandished with 'Sesquicentennial'. Takes up a lot of space on a Franklin Mint plate.
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