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Content: He reduced the size of the army and 
    put the army under more restrictive governmental controls. He moved to secularize 
    education and denied the Church its right to collect an involuntary tithe, leaving 
    what people gave the Church a matter of conscience. Anglos in Texas had cheered Santa Anna's electoral success, believing like 
    others that he was a liberal. The Anglos held a convention in 1833, at San Felipe, 130 miles east of San Antonio, attended by around 56 delegates. It called 
    for Mexico to repeal the anti-immigration section of its law of April 6, 1830. Texas 
    had been united with the state of Coahuilaback in 1824, 
    and the convention called for Texas to become an independent state within Mexico. It called also for judicial reform, habeas corpus, trial by jury, freedom of 
    the press, universal suffrage and improved mail service. The convention sent 
    Stephen Austin to Mexico Citywith their request for reform. On June 1, 1833, Mexico's military, led by General Gabriél Durán, rebelled 
    against Vice President Gómez Farías and kidnapped Santa Anna, declaring the great hero Santa 
    Anna to be dictator. Santa Anna went over to the side of the conservatives and 
    overthrew the government from which he had been absent.