Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1861

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Constitution
gptkbp:attendance Delegates_from_Georgia
gptkbp:controversy Slavery
Secession
State_sovereignty
gptkbp:date January 1861
gptkbp:documentType gptkb:Georgia_Constitution_of_1861
gptkbp:historicalContext Part of the secession movement
Preceding_the_Civil_War
Part_of_the_Confederate_States'_formation
Response_to_Lincoln's_election
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1861
gptkbp:impact Legacy_in_Southern_history
Constitutional_changes_in_Georgia
Cultural_implications_in_the_South
Historical_memory_of_the_Civil_War
Influence_on_post-war_Georgia_politics
Legal_framework_for_Confederate_Georgia
gptkbp:influencedBy Political climate of the 1860s
Southern_secessionist_sentiment
gptkbp:isStudiedIn March 1861
gptkbp:location gptkb:Georgia
gptkbp:notable_member gptkb:Joseph_E._Brown
gptkb:Benjamin_Hill
gptkb:Robert_Toombs
Herschel V. Johnson
gptkbp:outcome gptkb:Adoption_of_the_Georgia_Constitution_of_1861
gptkbp:performedBy gptkb:Governor_Joseph_E._Brown
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Georgia_Constitutional_Convention_of_1850
gptkbp:purpose Draft_a_new_constitution_for_the_Confederate_States
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Secession_of_Georgia
Formation of the Confederacy
Reconstruction era
Civil_War_battles_in_Georgia
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkb:Confederate_States_of_America
gptkbp:resultedIn Formation of a new government
gptkbp:significance Secession from the Union
gptkbp:succeededBy gptkb:Georgia_Constitutional_Convention_of_1865
gptkbp:year 1861