Happy Secession Day, Virginia!
Read the Virginia Secession Petition and Access Project '76 Audio below Mandeville, LA - In the process of ratifying the U.S. Constitution, the most celebrated, lengthy and heated debate was held in the Virginia Convention which convened on 4 June, 1788 in the old State House in Richmond. Seeing that there would not be enough room to accommodate the 187 delegates and thousands of interested citizens, the convention moved to the […]
