During the summer, autumn and early winter of 1865, the Provisional Governors of Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina,
The constitutional
conventions of 1865.
These bodies chose to do their work in the form of amendments to the old constitutions of the "States," whose constituent powers they
The form of the
work done in these
conventions, and
its substance.
Before the meeting of Congress also, elections of the members of the respective "State" legislatures and of "State" officers, and of the
The erection of
"State" governments
and the election of
Members of Congress.