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Virginia Constitution, 1868
As required by federal law to be readmitted to the United States, a convention met to write a new state constitution. It reformed local government on the more democratic model of the New England township; it required the General Assembly to create a…
Virginia Christian Petition for Commutation of Death Sentence to Life Imprisonment
Clemency petition of Virginia Christian, submitted in her behalf by her attorneys George W.Fields and J. Thomas Newsome.
