We the people of the State of Georgia in Convention assembled do declare
and ordain and it is hereby declared and ordained that the ordinance adopted by
the State of Georgia in convention on the 2nd day of January. in the year of our
Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the constitution of the United
States of America was assented to, ratified and adopted, and also all acts and
parts of acts of the general assembly of this State, ratifying and adopting
amendments to said constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.
We do further declare and ordain that the union now
existing between the State of Georgia and other States under the name of the
United States of America is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Georgia is
in full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong
and appertain to a free and independent State.