New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia.

"Article 1. The stile of this confederacy shall be, the United States of America.

Article 2. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence; and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.

Article 3. The said states hereby enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence; the security of their liberties, and their mutual, and general welfare; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks upon them, or either of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatsoever.

Article 4. The better to secure, and perpetuate mutual friendship, and intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitivés from justice · excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges, and immunities of free citizens, in the several states, and the people of each state shall have free ingress, and regress from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade, and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions, as the inhabitants thereof, respectively; provided that such restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any state, to any other state, of which the owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition, duties, or restriction, shall be laid by any state upon the property of the United States, or either of them.

If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any state, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the governor, or executive power of the

state from whence he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the state having jurisdiction of the offence.

Full faith, and credit shall be given in each of these. states, to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts, and magistrates of every other state.

Article 5. For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed, in such manner as the legis lature of each state shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November in every year, with a pow er reserved to each state to recal its members, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year.

No state shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being delegated for more than three years, in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding an office under the United States, for which he or any other for his benefit receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.

Each state shall maintain its own delegates in any meeting of the states, or while they act as members of the committee of the states.

In determining questions in the United States, in Congress assembled, each state shall have one vote.

Freedom of speech, and debate, in Congress, shall not be impeached, or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress; and the members of Congress shall be protected in their persons, from arrests, and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on Congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace.

Article 6. No State, without the consent of the United States, in Congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance, or treaty with any king, prince, or

state; nor shall any person holding any office of profit, or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind what soever, from any king, prince, or foreign state; nor shall the United States, in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility.

No two, or more states, shall enter into any treaty, confederation, or alliance whatever between them, without the consent of the United States, in Congress assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the same is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue.

No state shall lay any impost or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations, or treaties entered into by the United States, in Congress assembled, with any king, prince, or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress to the courts of France and Spain.

No vessels of war shall be kept by any state, in time of peace, except such number only as shall be deemed necessary by the United States, in Congress assembled, for the defence of such state, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any state, in time of peace, except such number only as, in the judgment of the United States, in Congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrrison the forts necessary for the defence of such state; but every state shall always keep up a well regu lated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide, and have constantly for use in public stores, a due number of field-pieces, and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition, and camp equip

No state shall engage in any war without the consent of the United States, in Congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger is so immi

nent, as not to admit of a delay until the United States, in Congress assembled, can be consulted; nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships, or vessels of war, nor letters of marque, or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States, in Congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom, or state, and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States, in Congress assembled, unless such state be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for the occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the United States, in Congress assembled, shall determine otherwise.

Article 7. When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of, or under the rank of colonel, shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces are raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appoint

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Article 8. All charges of war, and all other expences, that shall be incurred for the common defence, or general welfare, and allowed by the United States, in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states, in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to, or surveyed fo any person, as such land, and the buildings and improvements thereon, shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States, in Congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint.

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The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states, within the time agreed upon by the United States, in Congress assembled.

Article 9. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have the sole, and exclusive right, and power, of determining on peace and war, except in such cases mentioned in the sixth article, of sending, and receiving ambassadors; entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made, whereby the legislature of any state shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities, whatsoever; of establishing rules for deciding in all cases, what captures on land and water shall be legal, &c. in what manner prizes taken by land, or naval forces, in the service of the United States, shall be divided, or appropriated; of granting letters of marque, and reprisal, in time of peace; appointing courts for the trial of piracies, for felonies committed upon the high seas, and estab lishing courts for receiving and determining finally, appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed judge of any of said courts.

The United States, in Congress assembled, shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes, and differences now subsisting, or that may hereafter arise between two or more states, concerning boundary, jurisdiction, or any other cause whatsoever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following, viz.

Whenever the legislative, or executive authority, or lawful agent of any state, in controversy with another, shall present a petition to Congress, stating the matter in question, and praying for a hearing, notice thereof shall be given by order of Congress, to the legislative or executive authority of the other state in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties, by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint