State Secession?

[drevil915]

I live in Georgia and I am a college student writing a term paper on how U.S. states can secede from the federal union. I've been doing a lot of research on the Civil War but I haven't found anything about "how" they actually seceded. Please, I need someone with the knowledge to tell me the process in which a U.S. state would secede from the union, preferably in detail. Thanks to anyone who responds.

-Jason Iacono

[Help34Friend]

Jason,

Have you tapped into your State's--and the other Southern States that seceded from the Union prior to the Civil War--official government Websites searching for U.S. Historical documents? They should have the documents online. I've read a few of the Declaration of Secessions documents that have been uploaded to such Websites.

They are much like our Declaration of Independence of 1776, which our Founders sent or delivered to England's Parliment. Documents like these act as official notification of intent to seceed or separate one agency (or in our Civil War case, one State) from another (Union of States).

Go to your fave search engine and search for terms like, "State of Georgia" or "Georgia government" (careful with that one! There's a Russian state named Georgia). You should find the official government website, then search historical documents, Civil War, Secession...etc.

Do this for all the states which seceeded before that War.

If that is unsuccessful, try going to [url]http://www.firstgov.gov[/url], and look for the official state sites from that page.

[racer72]

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