Montgomery Convention

Procession along Dexter Avenue as seen across Court Square

The Montgomery Convention marked the formal beginning of the Confederate States of America. Convened in Montgomery, Alabama the Convention organized a provisional government for the Confederacy and created the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.

It opened in the chambers of the Alabama Senate on February 4, 1861.^[1] On February 8, the Convention adopted the Provisional Confederate States Constitution, and so became the first session of the Provisional Confederate Congress.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Caplan 1988, p. 57.

References

• Caplan, Russell L. (1988). Constitutional Brinksmanship: Amending the Constitution by National Convention. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195055733. http://books.google.com/books?id=xZFrVbQ9NIgC&pg=PA57. 

See also

• Provisional Confederate Congress