| Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 784 pages
...General Assembly of the State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and...the United States of America is hereby dissolved." The convention was fully prepared to vote and the ordinance was passed unanimously. Thus South Carolina... | |
| Paul F. Boller - History - 2004 - 496 pages
...special convention meeting in Charleston, resolved that "the Union now subsisting between South Caroline and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved." ' ' Soon other states in the South followed South Carolina out of the Union. And then came America's... | |
| Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 764 pages
...and the same are hereby, repealed and abrogated ; and that the Union now subsisting between Louisiana and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved. "We do further declare and ordain, that the State of Louisiana hereby resumes all rights and powers... | |
| Paul F. Boller Jr. - History - 2004 - 492 pages
...special convention meeting in Charleston, resolved that "the Union now subsisting between South Caroline and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved."11 Soon other states in the South followed South Carolina out of the Union. And then... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...moved to secede from the federal Union and declared "the dissolution of the union between the State of South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States of America." 5 South Carolina was followed over the next six weeks by the slave states of the lower South... | |
| Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified,...under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.20 Through the delegates the people of South Carolina now "appealed to the Supreme... | |
| Charles Edward Cauthen - History - 2005 - 290 pages
...23, 1788, by which South Carolina had ratified the Constitution of the United States, and declaring that the "union now subsisting between South Carolina...'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." 39 It was quickly adopted by the unanimous vote of the 169 delegates and immediately telegraphed to... | |
| Sean Wilentz - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 1114 pages
...unanimousl} approved an ordinance (drafted by a committee that included Barnwell Rhett) tersely announcing that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina...'United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." Over the next week, the convention approved two longer declarations justifying secession, one by Rhett,... | |
| James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - History - 2004 - 258 pages
...December 20, after three days of discussion, the convention issued an Ordinance of Secession, concluding, "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and...under the name of the 'United States of America,' is hereby dissolved."19 Southern newspapers urged quick action, warning that the South remained in grave... | |
| David P. Currie - Law - 2007 - 344 pages
...States was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed;...the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved. 41 35. Among other things, Johnson's proposed amendments would have required that every other President... | |
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