37b - explain the debate over secession in Georgia and the role of Alexander Stephens
secession
Georgia's role in secession
While white Georgians, along with other white southerners, disagreed over whether secession was a constitutional right in the national compact that grew out of the 1787 Constitutional Convention or a natural right of revolution from the get power of the people to form and abolish governments. when Abraham Lincoln, the leader of the antislavery and northern Republican Party, won the 1860 presidential election the states in the lower South moved quickly to call state conventions to consider secession. Georgia's state legislature set January 2, 1868 as the election date for a state convention which was to meet on January 16.
alexander stephens
Stephens resisted secession before U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's election. Unlike Toombs, though, Stephens continued to oppose separation right up to the time it became a fait accompli for Georgia in January 1861. Stephens ultimately signed Georgia's ordinance of secession. He was the vice president for the and worked in the House Of Representatives.