...United Confederated States in Congress assembled (hereafter referred to as the "Congress. " Article III. 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...

...delegated to the United States in Congress assembled." Article Three called for mutual assistance: "The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever." Articles Four through Thirteen provided detailed information regarding operational matters. In the...

...delegated to the United States in Congress assembled." Article Three called for mutual assistance: "The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever." Articles Four through Thirteen provided detailed information regarding operational matters. In the...

...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...

...by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. Article III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.15 The Confederate States of America were created as a result of this claim. The concept of...

...IV, p. 78; Max Farrsntij, The Records of the Federal Convention, Volume III, p. i3, §77 ART. III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account ot religfon, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. ART. IV. The better to secure and...

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

...by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. Article III. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm...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.,...

...military alliance, as something more like NATO than like the federal government under the US Constitution: "The said states hereby severally enter into a firm...the security of their Liberties, and their mutual general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks...

...arguments for a strong central government and chose instead a "firm league of friendship," united primarily "for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare...." 43 When the Constitutional Convention assembled in l787, the need for a strong...