...this Confederation, expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ARTICLE III. • The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...trade, or any other pretence whatever. ARTICLE IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different...

...capacity, under the style of " The United States of America." By these articles the States entered into a firm league of friendship with each other " for their...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever." Each State retained its " sovereignty, freedom, and independence ; and every power, jurisdiction, and...

...hereby severally enter into a firn, league of friendship with each other, for their common detence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual...trade, or any other pretence whatever. ARTICLE IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different...

...be very imperfect. The states had severally entered, as expressed in one of the articles, " into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare." But as it was a mere league was the state of the country at the close of the war...

...security of their liberties, and their reciprocal and general welfare, and bound themselves severally to assist each other against all force offered to,...account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretences whatever. It was further declared, that the free inhabitants of the several states, except...

...freedom, and independence, and all powers which were not expressly delegated to congress. It was a " league of friendship with each other, for their common...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare," &c. And, "the better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among...

...assembled. A»T. 1H. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship -.••iil, each other, for their common defence, the security...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. A«T. lV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of...

...not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. ART. III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...themselves to assist each other, against all force offered te, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other...

...assembled. Article I. THE style of this confederacy shall be, " The United States of America." Art. III. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. Art. IV. I) 1. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...

...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...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. Art. 4. § 1. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...