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Gutzman, Kevin., "The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Reconsidered: 'An Appeal to the _Real Laws_ of Our Country,'" Journal of Southern History 66 (2000), 473–96. Koch, Adrienne; Harry Ammon (1948). "The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions: An Episode in Jefferson's and Madison's Defense of Civil Liberties". The William and Mary Quarterly. 5 (2).
The Crittenden–Johnson Resolution was passed almost unanimously by the 37th United States Congress on July 25, 1861. [2] The bill was introduced as the War Aims Resolution, but it became better known for its sponsors Representative John J. Crittenden of Kentucky and Senator Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, both slaveholders.
The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in the state capital of Richmond to determine whether Virginia would secede from the United States, govern the state during a state of emergency, and write a new Constitution for Virginia, which was subsequently voted down in a referendum under the Confederate Government.
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Question of secession: Resolution for secession with referendum Wheeling (Virginia) Convention of 1861: May 13–15, 1861: Wheeling: Arthur I. Boreman: Secession movement: Restored Government loyal to U.S. Constitution Loyalist Convention of 1864: February 13 - April 11, 1864: Alexandria: LeRoy G. Edwards: Separation of West Virginia: Abolition ...
An Ordinance of Secession was the name given to multiple resolutions [1] drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861, at or near the beginning of the Civil War, by which each seceding slave-holding Southern state or territory formally declared secession from the United States of America.
Kentucky, for instance, was organized into a county of Virginia in 1776, with Virginia serving as practical sovereign over the area until its admission into the Union as a separate state in 1792. Massachusetts ' claims to land in modern-day Michigan and Wisconsin, [ 2 ] by contrast, amounted to little more than lines drawn on a map.
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