This represents the short time Texas was an independent nation battling Mexico for self-rule.

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And it is precisely this desire to be self-governing, you might say to rule directly, to have a direct part in political rule, that Hobbes saw as one of the great root causes of civil war.

正是这种自我统治的愿望，直接统治的愿望，在政治统治中直接参与的愿望，霍布斯视为是,内战一个很重要的原因。

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Self-rule means self-restraint.

自我管理意谓着自我克制。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And it promised them self-rule in the future.

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