Georgia 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

We the people of the State of Georgia in Convention assembled do declare and ordain and it is hereby declared and ordained that the ordinance adopted by the State of Georgia in convention on the 2nd day of Jany. in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the constitution of the United States of America was assented to, ratified and adopted, and also all acts and parts of acts of the general assembly of this State, ratifying and adopting amendments to said constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.

We do further declare and ordain that the union now existing between the State of Georgia and other States under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Georgia is in full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.

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