Georgia votes to ratify the U.S. Constitution, becoming the fourth state in the modern United States. [43], The final report addressed issues related to the war and state defense, and it recommended several amendments to the Constitution. The boundaries of each new state are set in the document admitting the former territory to the Union as a state, which Congress must approve. The AHA compiled statements that our members, fellow historical societies, AHA council members, and staff have made in op-eds, interviews, and other media conversations about the importance of historical thinking and knowledge within the current debate. Historian Ron Chernow says of this "he wasn't calling for peaceful protests or civil disobedience: he was calling for outright rebellion, if needed, against the federal government of which he was vice president." 44% of Americans in the South favored secession, with Republican support at 66%; while Democratic support was 47% in the Pacific states.[148][149][150]. A majority favored immediate secession while some wanted to wait until Georgia and Alabama left first. Every state in the Cofederacy issued an Article of Secession declaring their break from the Union. Thus Madison affirms an extraconstitutional right to revolt against conditions of "intolerable oppression"; but if the case cannot be made (that such conditions exist), then he rejects secessionas a violation of the Constitution. In the public debate over the Nullification Crisis the separate issue of secession was also discussed. As the largest and most populous Deep South state, Georgia was crucial to the success of the secessionist movement. Georgia was the fifth state to secede on January 19, 1861. [57] The legality of secession was hotly debated in the 19th century. Dec 12, 2022 Georgias secession from the Union followed nearly two decades of increasingly intense sectional conflict over the status of slavery in western territories and over the future of slavery in the United States. The declaration can be found in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Now that Georgia was out of the Union, Brown looked to expel the Federal presence from his state. Boundaries of U.S. territories, such as the Nebraska Territory, were not defined precisely. 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