The Georgia Platform was a political document issued by Georgia Democrats in December 1850, during a time of intense sectional tensions in the United States. The platform aimed to address the growing concerns and fears of the Southern states regarding the potential abolition of slavery and to assert the rights of the states to determine their own slaveholding status. The document emphasized that if the federal government attempted to interfere with slavery in the Southern states, it would be considered as a violation of the Constitution, resulting in severe consequences. The Georgia Platform served as a defense of states' rights and the institution of slavery in the South, and it contributed to the preservation of the status quo for several more years leading up to the American Civil War.
