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The Montgomery Convention marked the formal beginning of the Confederate States of America. Convened in Montgomery, Alabama the Convention organized a provisional government for the Confederacy and created the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
It opened in the chambers of the Alabama Senate on February 4, 1861.[1] On February 8, the Convention adopted the Provisional Confederate States Constitution, and so became the first session of the Provisional Confederate Congress.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b Caplan 1988, p. 57.
References
- Caplan, Russell L. (1988). Constitutional Brinksmanship: Amending the Constitution by National Convention. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195055733. http://books.google.com/books?id=xZFrVbQ9NIgC&pg=PA57.
See also
Categories:- American Civil War stubs
- Alabama in the American Civil War
- Secession crisis of 1860–1861
- History of Montgomery, Alabama
- Politics of Alabama
- 1861 in the Confederate States of America
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