...in part adopted. Those articles also had a clause providing for amendments. It was in these words : "The Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably...afterwards confirmed by the Legislature of every State." We here see it expressly declared, that the articles could be altered only in the prescribed manner....

...ART. 13. Every state shall abide by the determination of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which, by this Confederation, are submitted...afterwards confirmed by the legislature of every state. RATIFICATION. And whereas it has pleased the Great Governor of the world to incline the hearts of the...

...— ' Every State shall abide by the determination of the United ' States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this ' Confederation are submitted...the United ' States, and be afterwards confirmed by Hie legislatures of ' every State.' Yet, in spite of this emphatic and unmistakeable language, the...

...— ' Every State shall abide by the determination of the United ' States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this ' Confederation are submitted...Congress of the United ' States, and be afterwards con firmed by the legislatures of ' every State.' Yet, in spite of this emphatic and unmistakeable...

...determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation is submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation...United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state. And whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline...

...questions union'pei- • "which) by this confederation, are submitted to them. And the petuaii &c.' articles of this confederation shall be inviolably...afterwards confirmed by the legislature of every state. Ratine* And whereas it has pleased the Great Governor of the world tion- to incline the hearts of the...

...might secede from the remaining four, notwithstanding the article in the old Constitution, namely, " And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably...United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State." In the new Constitution there is no declaration that the Union shall...

...the following words in Art. XIII. of the ' Articles of Confederation ' : — 'And the Articles of the Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every...United States, • and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.' If we are to interpret the language of Art. XIII. of the ' Articles of...

...articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall le perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter...by the legislature of every state. And whereas it has pleased the Great Governor of the world to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively...

...be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall "be perpetual" it immediately subjoins, "Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be...afterwards confirmed by the Legislature of every State" As, then, the amendment excluding Slavery from the Territories 89 would be an alteratibii made in some...