[central_va]

Seriously, try to learn something. Your posts are going to start to be ignored if you keep up with this undocumented BS.

Ordinances of Secession

The ordinances of secession were the actual legal language by which the seceded states severed their connection with the Federal Union. The declarations of causes, given elsewhere on this Web site, are where they tended to disclose their reasons for doing so, although only four states issued separate declarations of causes.

The political theory of the time among secessionists required that the act of secession be carried out by a specially elected convention or by referendum. In this sense the "secessions" of both Missouri and Kentucky were flawed, as neither was carried out in this manner. The Missouri secession ordinance was passed by a rump legislature and never approved by the people at large. The Kentucky secession ordinance was adopted by a convention of 200 participants representing 65 counties, held in Russellville.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Thanks for that - I was not aware of this.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The political theory of the time among secessionists required that the act of secession be carried out by a specially elected convention or by referendum."

Wow, that made it constitutional huh? So my posts are undocumented bs (talking about the founders and constitution) but you rely on political theory at the time.