In the post-Independence period the movement saw a marked return to constitutional methods.
He believed in violence for violent methods would arise when constitutional methods had failed.
Some were said to have pressed especially hard for changes in the constitutional method of choosing a national leader.
His indignation carried him into accord for a time with those who advocated the acceptance of constitutional methods.
This prompted Williams to call the Legislature into special session in 1916 to determine more constitutional methods of black suffrage.
Point two stated that every constitutional method should be used to enact a change in law when the majority of voters desire a change.
The right of reform is in the nation in its original character, and the constitutional method would be by a general convention elected for the purpose.
This failure led to a huge degree of scepticism that the constitutional methods were not going to be successful.
But that order should be established by forces elected by the people, by constitutional methods.
Instead, the military are thought to prefer to let the Supreme Court use "constitutional" methods to go after the government.