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Once it met, the state convention WAS the government of Virginia and those delegates who voted to rebel thereby were no longer legitimate delegates

Reread what you have written, and see how convoluted this logic is. The duly elected state government of Virginia did not go out of existence the minute it voted and or the people ratified for secession. It still remained the sworn governance of the people and the state. Under the rules/constitution of Virginia a quorum was necessary for calling an assembly to order of these elected officials, (follow me). Only their association with the other states that were and still are in the Union ended, not the authority to govern. An assembly of delegates from those counties that now form what is called West Virginia, if they had enough delegates to have a legal quorum could have voted to return the entire state to the Union. They had no quorum. Your problem is not with me, it is with the facts.