On June 19th, 1861, Virginia ratified the Confederate Constitution. Alexander H. H Stuart of Augusta County, Virginia proposed an amendment to the instrument through which Virginia ratified the Constitution of the Confederate States.
Stuart's amendment read, "But this Constitution, as ratified and adopted by Virginia, with the distinct understanding on her part that she expressly reserves to herself the right, through a Convention representing her people, in their sovereign character, to repeal and annul this ordinance, and to resume all the powers hereby granted to the Confederate Government whenever they shall, in her judgment, have been perverted to her injury and oppression." Adopted by a vote of 92-0. Randolph H. Church, Journals and Papers of the Virginia State Convention, volume 1, pg. 255-256.
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