...which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. ni. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm...religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatsoever. IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...

...designed to make clear a government was not being created.) Article III established "a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence,...account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever." A unicameral Congress was the governing body of the confederation and was composed...

...not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. Article III. The said states hereby severally enter into a...against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, Sources: See Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States, 69th Cong.,...

...not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. Article III. The said states hereby severally enter into a...against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, Sources: See Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States, 69th Cong.,...

...assembled. Article III bound the states to defend each other under under certain circumstances including "attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever." Ninety years later the descendants of those same Northern politicians would declare that state sovereignty,...

...which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. Ill The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves...