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Georgia has held only three constitutional or official state conventions since 1861. Two of the three were Reconstruction conventions, held to meet requirements by the federal government for the state's readmission to the Union. These meetings, in 1865 and 1867-68, were responsible for the political rebuilding of Georgia following the Civil War (1861-65). The constitutional convention of 1865 met in accordance with instructions from U.S. president Andrew Johnson and proceeded to adopt a new state constitution abolishing slavery in Georgia. After Congress assumed responsibility for Reconstruction, Georgia called another convention in 1867 for the purpose of rewriting the state constitution to extend suffrage to black males, as mandated by Congress. Although these assemblies also addressed other changes to the state constitution, they were called primarily as the result of the Southern defeat in the Civil War and the resulting federal Reconstruction policies. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/constitutional-conventions
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