Mississippi 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

AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of Mississippi and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America."

The people of the State of Mississippi, in convention assembled, do ordain and declare, and it is hereby ordained and declared, as follows, to wit:

Section 1. That all the laws and ordinances by which the said State of Mississippi became a member of the Federal Union of the United States of America be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and that all obligations on the part of the said State or the people thereof to observe the same be withdrawn, and that the said State doth hereby resume all the rights, functions, and powers which by any of said laws or ordinances were conveyed to the Government of the said United States, and is absolved from all the obligations, restraints, and duties incurred to the said Federal Union, and shall from henceforth be a free, sovereign, and independent State.

Sec. 2. That so much of the first section of the seventh article of the constitution of this State as requires members of the Legislature and all officers, executive and judicial, to take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States be, and the same is hereby, abrogated and annulled.

Sec. 3. That all rights acquired and vested under the Constitution of the United States, or under any act of Congress passed, or treaty made, in pursuance thereof, or under any law of this State, and not incompatible with this ordinance, shall remain in force and have the same effect as if this ordinance had not been passed.

Sec. 4. That the people of the State of Mississippi hereby consent to form a federal union with such of the States as may have seceded or may secede from the Union of the United States of America, upon the basis of the present Constitution of the said United States, except such parts thereof as embrace other portions than such seceding States.

Thus ordained and declared in convention the 9th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1861.

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