Pierpont was elected governor of the Restored state government, and during the next few days the remaining offices were filled. Members of the Committee on a Division of the State drafted and approved an ordinance to form a new state.
The new state, originally named Kanawha, consisted of forty-eight western counties. Despite opposition from the southwestern counties, on October 24, , western Virginians voted for the new state ordinance. On November 26, , delegates gathered in Wheeling to draft a constitution for the proposed state. On February 18, , the convention delegates approved the constitution, and on April 24, , western voters followed suit.
As required by Article IV, section 3, of the U. Constitution , on May 6, Pierpont agreed to the dismemberment of Virginia. Willey presented the new state memorial to the Senate.
Carlile drafted the statehood bill. On July 14, , the U. Lincoln received the statehood bill on December 15 and conferred with his cabinet about its constitutionality. Despite divisions within his cabinet, Lincoln signed the bill on December 31, After receiving word that the Wheeling delegates February 17 and western voters March 26 had approved the revised state constitution, Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring that on June 20, , West Virginia would officially become a state.
The creation of the state of West Virginia exacerbated the bitter internal factionalism that had characterized western Virginia politics in the years leading up to the Civil War.
The bitter partisanship of the interwar years extended into the postwar reconstruction of West Virginia and eventually resulted in the resurgence of many former Confederates and statehood opponents into influential political positions within the West Virginia state government.
West Virginia and lingering resentment among former Confederates regarding their political disfranchisement and property losses, the state of West Virginia retained its sovereignty.
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The Virginia state legislature passed the Order of Secession on April 17, and Virginians voted to ratify secession on May The West Virginia Constitution was ratified by voters on November 26, In May , Senator Waitman T.
Willey Unionist-VA submitted a bill, S. He then proposed an amendment to the bill calling for West Virginia to amend their constitution to include the gradual emancipation of slaves in the state. The House approved the bill in December. Lincoln signed the bill admitting West Virginia to the Union, on December The question indirectly came before the Supreme Court in in a case called Virginia v. West Virginia about the inclusion of two Virginia counties within West Virginia.
In another Supreme Court decision in , Virginia acknowledged the existence of West Virginia as a state. In modern times, one academic debate is about the punctuation of the Admissions Clause, and if the strict meaning of the second semi-colon in Article IV, Section 3, bars the creation of any state from the existing territory of a current state.
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