...present purposes it is necessary to refer only to three articles. " Art. 3. The said states, hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with...account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretext whatever." "Art. 9. The United States, in congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive...

...articles of confederation, so different from those of our present Constitution. " ' The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, &c. binding themselves to assist each other.' And the ratification was by delegates of the state legislatures,...

...confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. Art. S. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. • Art. 4. § 1. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of...

...rg, wc is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in congress assembled. the security of their liberties, and their mutual...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. ART. 4. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friend- Mutual prmship and intercourse among the people...

...of America ;' by which they enter' ed ' into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their defence, the security of their liberties, and their...each other against all force offered to or attacks mad? npon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.'...

...article, degraded from its place as the second, the firm league of friendship of these several states with each other, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare. In the debates upon these articles of confederation, between the 7th of October, and...

...expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ARTICLE III. • The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. ARTICLE IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...

...capacity, under the style of " The United States of America." By these articles the States entered into a firm league of friendship with each other " for their...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever." Each State retained its " sovereignty, freedom, and independence ; and every power, jurisdiction, and...

...hereby severally enter into a firn, league of friendship with each other, for their common detence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. ARTICLE IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...

...be very imperfect. The states had severally entered, as expressed in one of the articles, " into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare." But as it was a mere league was the state of the country at the close of the war...