...is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ART. 3. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare ; bindiug themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks...

...declared, that the Colonies " unite themselves so as NEVER to be divided by any act whatever," and enter into a firm league of friendship with each other...the security of their liberties and their mutual and general welfare."J This draft having undergone frequent modifications — after discussions chiefly...

...unsatisfactory. They declared, as might have been expected, that their object was to establish a permanent Union, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare. They provjded, that the free inhabitants of each State should be entitled to all the...

...Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia." The third of these Articles declared that "the said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other." Such a league may be formed at any time between independent States. Each State was at...

...unsatisfactory. They declared, as might have been expected, that their object was to establish a permanent Union, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare. They provided, that the free inhabitants of each State should be entitled to all the...

...which is not by this confederation, expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other * # * * And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State,...

...independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation, expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ARTICLE...the security of their liberties, and their mutual anff general welfare ; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks...

...style of " The United States of America," into a firm league of fri&hdship with each other, for their defence, the security of their liberties, and their...themselves to assist each other against all force oifered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade,...

...not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ARTICLE 3. 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...

...sovereignty, freedom, and independence." Nor did the States, thereby, pretend to do anything more than " enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence;" and in the decision of all questions each State had a single vote. The fate of that confederacy, as...