Navarro is the sole Hispanic delegate to the Convention of 1845, where Texas accepts U.S. president James K. Polk'sproposal for annexation. Navarro helps to write the first state constitution ...

and the constitution thereof, with the proper evidence of its adoption by the people of said Republic of Texas, shall be transmitted to the President of the United States, to be laid before ...

Texas remained an independent republic for nearly a decade before joining the United States in 1845, cementing our ... rules are enshrined in the Texas Constitution.) This system ensures those ...