A Split at the Constitutional Convention

[Mike Collins]

Okay, the Constitutional Convention is going on to replace the non-hacking Articles of Confederation. Like in our timeline, delegates propose compromise provisions in the Constitution regarding slavery. What if the Southern delegates see these compromises as what they wound up being......poison pills that had to be barfed out sometime in the future under unpleasant circumstances. The Southern State delegates leave the convention, their states secede and they set up their own Constitutional Convention.

Where do we go from here?

 

[Chrispi]

Civil war with one side allied to the British, most likely.

 

[Faeelin]

No oen at the convention wanted to secede. They'd simply refuse to ratify it.

 

[Chrispi]

No oen at the convention wanted to secede. They'd simply refuse to ratify it.

Again, this would lead to regionalism. The US couldn't work, so they'd have to try something smaller and more economically integrated...

 

[Faeelin]

Again, this would lead to regionalism. The US couldn't work, so they'd have to try something smaller and more economically integrated...

Perhaps. We might see states within states. But there's no reason the US would necessarily divide into seperate nations, and I don't think it's the most probable outcome, or even a probable outcome.

 

[Chrispi]

Perhaps. We might see states within states. But there's no reason the US would necessarily divide into seperate nations, and I don't think it's the most probable outcome, or even a probable outcome.

What's another alternative to 13 weak states and a failed confederation? For failed it was surely.

 

[Mike Collins]

No oen at the convention wanted to secede. They'd simply refuse to ratify it.

Thats true to a point. They came to the convention intending to stay together. But the convention lasted long enough that secession could have come up.

 

[Mike Collins]

Civil war with one side allied to the British, most likely.

Or how about some sort of armed conflict with the British appearing to pick up as many wayward colonies as possible? Is that possible?