Florida Ordinance of Secession

File:1st National 11 Stars.png    Secession    File:1st National 11 Stars.png of the Confederate States of America (CSA) File:Confederate States of America.png Secession Begins: December 20, 1860 South Carolina Secession Complete: June 8, 1861 Tennessee Secession Documents:: South Carolina Ordinance of Secession Mississippi Declaration of Causes of Secession Mississippi Ordinance of Secession Florida Ordinance of Secession Alabama Ordinance of Secession Georgia Declaration of Causes of Secession Georgia Ordinance of Secession Louisiana Ordinance of Secession Texas Ordinance of Secession Arkansas Ordinance of Secession North Carolina Ordinance of Secession Virginia Ordinance of Secession Tennessee Ordinance of Secession Related Documents: Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States Constitution of the Confederate States of America

ORDINANCE OF SECESSION

We, the people of the State of Florida, in convention assembled, do solemnly ordain, publish, and declare, That the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself from the confederacy of States existing under the name of the United States of America and from the existing Government of the said States; and that all political connection between her and the Government of said States ought to be, and the same is hereby, totally annulled, and said Union of States dissolved; and the State of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and independent nation; and that all ordinances heretofore adopted, in so far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded; and all laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far as they recognize or assent to said Union, be, and they are hereby, repealed.

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