The resolutions they forwarded to the Virginia Legislature, asked the immediate erection of Kentucky into an independent state, and expressed the conviction that the new commonwealth would undoubtedly be admitted into the Union.

This, of course, meant that Kentucky would first become a power outside and independent of the Union; and no provision was made for entry into the Union beyond the expression of a hopeful belief that it would be allowed.
Such a course would have been in the highest degree unwise and the Virginians refused to allow it to be followed.

Their Legislature, in January, 1786, provided that a new convention should be held in Kentucky in September, 1786, and that, if it declared for independence, the state should come into being after the 1st of September, 1787, provided, however, that Congress, before June 1, 1787, consented to the erection of the new state, and agreed to its admission into the Union.

It was also provided that another convention should be held, in the summer of 1787, to draw up a constitution for the new state.

[Footnote: Marshall, i., 224] Virginia Wisely Affixes Conditions to her Consent Virginia thus, with great propriety, made the acquiescence of Congress a condition precedent for formation of the new State.