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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION—1777 1
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION 1777 1. To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the article I. The stile of this confederacy shall undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our be The United States of America.''. Names send greeting article II. Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, ju- Whereas the Delegates of the United States of risdiction and right, which is not by this confed- America in Congress assembled did on the eration expressly delegated to the United fifteenth day of November in the Year of our States, in Congress assembled. Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and article III. The said States hereby severally Seventyseven, and in the Second Year of the enter into a firm league of friendship with each Independence of America agree to certain arti- other, for their common defence, the security of cles of Confederation and perpetual Union their liberties, and their mutual and general between the States of Newhampshire, Massachu- welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, setts-bay, Rhodeisland and providence Planta- against all force offered to, or attacks made tions, C
setts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecti-cut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina, agreeably to the powers vested in them. The delegates of North Carolina signed on the 21st of July, those of Georgia on the 24th of July, and those of New Jersey on the 26th of November follow-ing.
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