<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> becomes the first state to attempt to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession" id="mwTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Secession">secede</a> from the United States with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Declaration_of_Secession" id="mwUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="South Carolina Declaration of Secession">South Carolina Declaration of Secession</a>.<sup about="#mwt46" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-7" id="mwUQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUg">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt43" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGraham2007">Graham, Cole Blease (2007). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MMqpKirVOzMC&amp;pg=PA16" id="mwBl0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBl4">The South Carolina State Constitution: A Reference Guide</i></a>. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.<span id="mwBl8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>16. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBmE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-313-29299-6" id="mwBmI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-313-29299-6"><bdi id="mwBmM">978-0-313-29299-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt43" class="Z3988" id="mwBmQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+South+Carolina+State+Constitution%3A+A+Reference+Guide&amp;rft.pages=16&amp;rft.pub=Greenwood+Publishing+Group&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-313-29299-6&amp;rft.aulast=Graham&amp;rft.aufirst=Cole+Blease&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DMMqpKirVOzMC%26pg%3DPA16&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>