Chapter 7: A New Constitution

Chapter 7

A New Constitution

            Lieutenant Taylor and his convoy escorted the Utah Guardsmen out of the city and sent them on their way back to Utah. Once the Utes were out of sight, Carson started his second priority orders, to make a secure, defensive surrounding of the city. Twenty minutes after Carson’s convoy arrived on the campus, the Utah Guardsmen were out of the city, their supplies looted by the Guardsmen of Nevada, and the city of Reno, Nevada had been secured against an enemy attack.

            Carson City, Nevada. “Mike, I think this just might work out.” Nevada Governor Victor Romos was talking on the phone with Governor Stanton about the Nevada raid on the Utah encampment.

            “Are any other states on board with us?” Mike asked.

            “Yes, there are. I have talked to the governors of Washington, Hawaii, Alaska, Arizona, Oregon and New Mexico. They are all preparing to try to send a secession bill through each of their own senates. Once the bill is passed, they will join us and our cause.

            “Great. I’ll see you in Sacramento then.”

            “All right.” Victor hung the phone back onto its hook. He was sitting in his office just like he had been doing for the last couple of days, thinking about the Californian secession. It didn’t take long, or much convincing, for Governor Romos to try to pass a secession bill through the Nevada State Senate. Apparently the Senate didn’t need much convincing either, as it was a unanimous vote of the Senate to secede from the United States and join the Californian cause.

            On July 7^th, starting at 12:00 pm with the meeting of the Nevada State Senate, there began a series of hearings in numerous session bill passed through several state legislatures, many of whom Governors Romos or Stanton didn’t even knew supported their cause. Secession bills were being passed left and right; with unanimous votes in Arizona, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Alaska, New Mexico, and Montana; and very close 2/3 votes in New York, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and North Dakota. By 2:23 pm that day, 16 states had followed in California’s footsteps by seceding from the union of the United States of America.

            Sacramento, California, July 8^th. Every member of the state senates of the 17 secession states, the 17 state governors, and the 34 members of the federal senate were on hand to meet at the California State Capitol Building. That building had never been so crowded, but it was worth it in the minds of everyone there, as they prepared to do something that the state legislatures hadn’t had to do in over two hundred years, write a new constitution.