Approved by a seceding portion of the Virginia Legislature? Not the whole body of the Virginia Legislature?
Don't you appologists keep telling us that acts by seceding authorities are null and void without the consent of the rest of the body?
I guess secession is okay just when it supports what you want, eh?
That part not engaged in rebellion against the U.S., yes.
Don't you appologists keep telling us that acts by seceding authorities are null and void without the consent of the rest of the body?
They could have given their consent or withheld their consent as the case may be, except that they were off rebelling and all.
I guess secession is okay just when it supports what you want, eh?
I'm not at all surprised that you could come to that conclusion. I would just point out that the Supreme Court recognized the legality of the creation of West Virginia when they ruled in the case of Virginia v. West Virginia (78 U.S. 39) in 1871.