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

...matters within their own limits, the old confederation, in article ninth, where granting the power of regulating "the trade and managing all affairs...legislative right of any State, within its own limits, be not infringed^ or violated." The same end was meant to be effected in the new constitution, though...

...explications of such policy was a proclamation issued by the Continental Congress in 1783 that referred to "managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the states." 18 Presumably the qualifier "not members of any of the states" indicated a distinction in the minds...

...an. IX. ci. 4 (US t78D ("The Uniied States in Congress shall also have the sole and exclusive power of ... regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not memhers of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within ils own limits...

...Article IX of the Articles of Confederation gave to Congress "the sole and exclusive right and power of ... regulating the trade and managing all affairs...legislative right of any State, within its own limits be not infringed or violated." The qualifying phrases — concessions to state sovereignty — permitted...

...states— regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the 874 ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION C756.14] Indians, not members of any of the states, provided...legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated—establishing and regulating post-offices from one state to another,...

...the sole and exclusive right and power of. . . . regulating the trade and managing all affairs uith the Indians, not members of any of the states, provided...that the legislative right of any state within its owns limits be not infringed or violated- ", reserving Indian Affairs as a national concern was a crucial...

...Articles of Confederation, ratified in 1781, 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 in 1788 (Rhode Island was the last to ratify— reluctantly— in...

...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."36 Even this did not satisfy the advocates of state control, who were jealous of individual...

...vague wording of the Articles of Confederation, which cautiously gave to Congress the "right and power of ... regulating the trade and managing all affairs...legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated." Furthermore, the Articles gave to each state the power to engage in...