Soon afterwards the convention adjourned, after providing for the calling of a new convention, to consist of five delegates from each county, who should give a name to the state, and prepare for it a constitution.

The members of this constitutional convention were to be chosen by counties, and not by captain's companies.
There was much quarrelling over the choice of members for the constitutional convention, the parties dividing on the lines indicated in the vote on the question of immediate independence.

When the convention did meet, in November, it broke up in confusion.

At the same time North Carolina, becoming alarmed, repealed her cession act; and thereupon Sevier himself counselled his fellow-citizens to abandon the movement for a new state.

However, they felt they had gone too far to back out.