...assembled. ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be, " The United States of America" Art. 3. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. Art. 4. § 1. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...

...Confederation, the nature of it was defined, and charac-terized as a " firm league of friendship for each other, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and general welfare." The powers of the Confederation, or League, were vested in a Congress, without a...

...Confederation, the nature of it was defined, and characterized as a " firm league of friendship for each other, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and general welfare." The powers of the Confederation, or League, were vested in a Congress, without a...

...assembled. AHTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be, " The United States of America." Art. 3. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. Art 4. | 1. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...

..."United States of America." It was resolved to be a " firm league of*friendship" among them, " for their defence, the security of their liberties, and their...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever." Each State was to retain its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction,...

...Confederation, the nature of it was denned, and charac-terized as a "firm league of friendship for each other, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and general welfare." The powers of the Confedera-tion, or League, were vested in a Congress, without a...

...Confederation, the nature of it was defined, and characterized as a "firm league of friendship for each other, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and general welfare." The powers of the Confederation, or League, were vested in a Congress, without a...

...insisted on, as one of the strongest reasons, why it should be adopted in lieu of the confederation." "' The said states hereby severally enter into a firm...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;" and by the third article, " the said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other," &c.; that there then existed an unity of political power, in the people and government...

...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...