The Formation of the Union, an Exhibit: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, Together with Other Documents Reflecting Events that Led to American Independence and the Establishment of the Federal Union |
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12 colonies adopted agreed alliance American Annapolis Convention April Army Articles of Association Articles of Confederation August Benjamin Franklin BILL OF RIGHTS Britain Charles Thomson commissioners Committee of Detail Congress assembled DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Delaware Document signed draft shown elected Endorsed facsimile February Federal fhall FRANKLIN'S CREDENTIALS free and independent Gen¹ George Washington HABEAS CORPUS Hampshire hand of Charles Honble honor John Adams John Hancock John Rutledge June Lee Resolution Lexington and Concord liberties March Maryland Massachusetts meet members of Congress moved and seconded North Carolina October ordered pages pages Parchment passed Philadelphia plan of confederation preamble PREPARE THE DECLARATION President Printed document proposed RESOLUTION FOR INDEPENDENCE Resolved Saratoga seal Second Continental Congress Secrecy Secretary Secy Senate September signed by delegates SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTORAL suggested amendments territory Thomas Mifflin Timothy Pickering tion troops unanimous United Colonies Virginia Plan votes WRITS OF HABEAS York
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Page 11 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 22 - Committee, that a national Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
Page 20 - States ; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose, to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State, will effectually provide for the same.
Page 19 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page 28 - I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States...
Page 19 - Federal debts, contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Page 8 - Resolved, That copies of the Declaration be sent to the several assemblies, conventions, and committees, or councils of safety, and to the several commanding officers of the continental troops ; that it be proclaimed in each of the United States, and at the head of the army.
Page 15 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Page 20 - Under this impression, your commissioners, with the most respectful deference, beg leave to suggest their unanimous conviction, that it may essentially tend to advance the interests of the Union, if the States, by whom they have been respectively delegated, would themselves concur, and use their endeavors to procure the concurrence of the other States in the appointment of commissioners, to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday in May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United...