...of the Articles of Confederation, the central government was given the responsibility of "regulating trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not...any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated." Article 9 gave the United States Congress the sole and exclusive right to make war and peace...

...Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right of ... establishing and regulating post offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on such papers passing through same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of said office." The first...

...States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of . . . regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed...

...States — fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States — regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians,...any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated — establishing and regulating post offices from one State to another, throughout all the...

...manage "all affairs with the Indians." But this deliberately euphonious terminology added a reservation: "provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated."1 Through this barn door, Virginia marched with George Rogers Clark and the establishment...

...Confederation, ratified in 178r, gave Congress "the sole and exclusive right and power of. . . regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States." The federal Constitution, ratified by the required nine states in 1788 (Rhode Island, the last of the...

...respective states—fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the united states— regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians,...states, and exacting such postage on the papers passing thro' the same as may be requisite to defray the expences of the said office—appointing all officers...

...Confederation gave Congress "sole and exclusive power . . . managing all affairs with the Indians, not in any of the states, provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits not be infringed or violated."12 Article I, section 8 of the Constitution dropped the states' rights...

...States in congress assembled the sole and exclusive right of "regulating the trade and managing all the affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the states: provided that the legislative power of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated." The ambiguous phrases which...

...and control was not settled. The newly formed Continental Congress reserved to itself the power of "managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States," but also provided that the "legislative right of any State, within its own limits, be not infringed"...