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Article: Lincoln and the political question: the creation of the state of West Virginia. (Abraham Lincoln)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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West Virginia is a child of the Civil War--a state made possible by the extraordinary chaos and opportunities that such upheavals bring. For the war generation and for those interested ever since, that episode created confusing constitutional debates about the nature of secession, the obligations of the national administration to guarantee to each state a republican form of government, and the right of free peoples to break off from a rebellious commonwealth and assert their fundamental allegiance to the Union. The handling of the West Virginia statehood movement also offers some insight into the continuing hold of constitutional forms on Northern politicians and opinion ...
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Article: WEST VIRGINIA, REGIONAL HISTORY COLLECTION AT ...
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... ... History Collection (WVRHC) at West Virginia University offers visitors an engaging glimpse of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era in which ... exhibit, "Abraham Lincoln and West Virginia: Selections from the West Virginia ...
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