We the people of the State of Georgia in Convention assembled do declare and ordain and it is
hereby declared and ordained that the ordinance adopted by the State of Georgia in convention on
the 2nd day of Jany. in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the
constitution of the United States of America was assented to, ratified and adopted, and also all
acts and parts of acts of the general assembly of this State, ratifying and adopting amendments to
said constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.
We do further declare and ordain that the union now existing between the State of Georgia and
other States under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved, and that the
State of Georgia is in full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong
and appertain to a free and independent State.
Passed January 19, 1861.
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