Talk:Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1864

Needs expansion

This article is a daughter of Virginia Conventions initiated by Dallyripple. Editors are invited to expand it with additional research to develop better historical context prior to the Convention itself, and to elaborate the main features of the Constitution that are not addressed in the summaries at Virginia Constitution. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 06:40, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Article title change

I propose renaming this article Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1864 because its use of "Loyalist" makes it sound pro-Confederate.

The title for the Alexandria convention in 1864 at the Encyclopedia Virginia online published by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in partnership with the Library of Virginia, is Virginia Constitutional Convention (1864). The author is Sara B. Bearss, senior editor of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography and author of “The Story of Virginia, an American experience” (1995) published by the Virginia Historical Society.

The article there concludes, "The Constitution of 1864 remained in effect until July 6, 1869, when voters ratified the so-called Underwood Constitution of 1869..." TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 08:37, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Agree per VirginiaHistorian Dallyripple (talk) 18:05, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Without objection,  Done. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 13:58, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

In Cynthia Miller Leonard's "General Assembly of Virginia" (1976) Virginia State Library, -- although all institutions of the Restored Government are indented in the Table of Contents, it titles the "Convention of 1864" on page 498 in the same style as other Virginia Constitutional Conventions. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 19:39, 15 February 2017 (UTC)