He religion of the Mexican nation is and will permanently be the Roman, Catholic, Apostolic [religion]. The nations protects her with wise and just laws and prohibits the exercise of any other [religion]. —Mexican Federal Constitution, Article 3 (1824)

No preference shall be given law to any religious denomination or mode of worship over another, but every person shall be permitted to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.
—Declaration of Rights, Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836)

Based on the excerpts above, what is one way in which the Constitution of the Republic of Texas differed from the Constitution of Mexico?

It guaranteed the republican form of government.

It created a representative form of government.

It favored one form of religion over others.

It guaranteed its citizens freedom of religion
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