[GOPcapitalist]

You show me that there was a functioning constitutional government in Virgina in 1863, outside of the western counties!

Easy. Just go down to the capitol building in Richmond and you'll find an uninterupted house and senate journal throughout those years.

[capitan_refugio]

Nice try, but they were not operating under the US Constitution of 1787. They were an insurrectionist legislature and nothing did during that time was recognized as legal. In the eyes of the law, they did not even exist.