Brooke Rollins: “The American Revolution was an effort to reclaim English…”

“They take back what was unjustly stripped from our people and our citizens. So the English Civil War was an effort to reclaim ancient liberties. So too, The American Revolution was an effort to reclaim English liberties. So the Texas Revolution was an effort to, in the words of the Texas Declaration of Independence, reclaim that constitutional liberty and republican government to which the Texans had habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.” (17:47–17:52)

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