Dr. Kathleen Logothetis Thompson graduated with her Ph.D. from West Virginia University in 2017. The Constitution is the foundational governing document of the State of Texas, second only to the U.S. Constitution. A second resolution passed that enabled the remaining 24 opponents to sign a document acknowledging Alabamas decision without taking part in it. In doing so, members of the state's secession convention felt it their duty to tell the world why. The American Battlefield Trust is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Alabama Declaration Of Secession - Alabama Info Hub The convention adjourned on April 27, 1861. I was able to analyze four secession documents written by states: South Carolina . Elsewhere, the Delaware legislature quickly, firmly rejected secession despite targeted lobbying from states intending to secede. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. The Government of the United States claimed territory by virtue of the treaty of 1783 with Great Britain, acquired territory by cession from Georgia and North Carolina, by treaty from France, and by treaty from Spain. The "Secession Movement," political cartoon, ca. Background of the Confederate States Constitution Secession Acts of the Thirteen Confederate States And whereas, the majority of the Legislature of Kentucky have violated their most solemn pledges made before the election, and deceived and betrayed the people; have abandoned the position of neutrality assumed by themselves and the people, and invited into the State the organized armies of Lincoln; have abdicated the Government in favor of a military despotism which they have placed around themselves, but cannot control, and have abandoned the duty of shielding the citizen with their protection; have thrown upon our people and the State the horrors and ravages of war, instead of attempting to preserve the peace, and have voted men and money for the war waged by the North for the destruction of our constitutional rights; have violated the expressed words of the constitution by borrowing five millions of money for the support of the war without a vote of the people; have permitted the arrest and imprisonment of our citizens, and transferred the constitutional prerogatives of the Executive to a military commission of partisans; have seen the writ of habeus corpus suspended without an effort for its preservation, and permitted our people to be driven in exile from their homes; have subjected our property to confiscation and our persons to confinement in the penitentiary as felons, because we may choose to take part in a cause for civil liberty and constitutional government against a sectional majority waging war against the people and institutions of fifteen independent States of the old Federal Union, and have done all these things deliberately against the warnings and vetoes of the Governor and the solemn remonstrances of the minority in the Senate and House of Representatives: Therefore,
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