...The provision of the Confederation on this subject gave to the United States the exclusive right and power " of regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed...

...the respective states : fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States : regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the states ; Provided, that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed...

...the respective States ; fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States ; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States — provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed...

...the respective States ; fixing the standard of •weights and measures throughout the United States ; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States — provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed...

...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 not members of VOL. i. 65 any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits...

...of Confederation contained a compromise strategy, giving Congress "the sole and exclusive right and power of ... regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians," but stipulating that it might not "infringe" on the right of any state. This ambiguity was not eliminated...

...VI). Third, "The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have 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, providing that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed...

...provided: The United 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 any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within it own limits be not infringed...

...simple statement appeared: "The United States Assembled shall have 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."" Even this did not satisfy the advocates of state control, who were jealous of individual...

...(proposed in 1777 and ratified in 1781) provided that Congress had "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, provided that the legislative right of any State, within its own limits be not infringed...