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; another wanted it declared
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; another,
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; others,
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;
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; or
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The minority proposition to declare it
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was laid on the table by a vote of 69 to 21, the minority being from north Alabama. A proposition to declare it
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was lost by the same vote. And all similar propositions fared about the same.[936] However, a proposition to say that
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secured 34 votes against 59. Clark of Lawrence, who had been in the convention of 1861, wanted this convention to declare the ordinance of secession
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because, he said, in 1861, the majority of the people voted for
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and that, as the convention refused to submit its work to the people, the people were misrepresented and the ordinance of secession was unauthorized. Yet he would not say that it was unconstitutional and void from the beginning. Other members said that the convention of 1861 had full authority. From the act of the legislature of 1860 which provided for the calling of the convention, the people understood that it had full authority and they also knew that it would use its authority to secede.
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Unauthorized would mean that there was no cause for calling the convention of 1861, and would even deny the right to secede as a revolutionary right. It would mean consent to the doctrine of passive obedience, and also that the convention of 1861 and those who supported it had usurped authority, and
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[937] The ordinance favored by the majority of the convention declared that the ordinance of secession