...hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual...account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever. ARTICLE 4. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse...

...Carolina, and Georgia. ART. 1. The style of this Confederacy shall be " The United States of America." AUT. 2. Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and...against all force offered to or attacks made upon them on account of religiou, sovereignty, trade, or anv other pretence whatever. ABT. 4. The better to secure...

...not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. ART. III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. ART. IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different...

...assembled:" And to render themselves each doubly secure in this particular, it is next declared, that, " The said States hereby severally enter into a firm...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever." Separate, independent sovereignty, could hardly be claimed in stronger terms, or secured by more stringent...

...the delegation of the Confederation Congress's powers. Article III. The said states hereby severally2 enter into a firm league of friendship with each other,...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. Article IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...

...United States, in Congress assembled. Article III. The said states hereby severally enter into ahm league of friendship with each other, for their common...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. Article IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...

...States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for the common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual...force offered to or attacks made upon them, or any one of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade or any pretense whatever." Is it conceivable...

...for their mutual and general welfare; and by this league the States which were parties to it bound themselves to assist each other against all force...account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever. The style of the Confederacy was declared to be " The United States of America,"...

...hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defenses, the security of their liberties, and their mutual...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. Article 6: ****** NO state shall engage in any war without the consent of the United States in Congress...

...the preamble to the US Constitution closely resembles Article Three of the Articles of Confederation: "The said states hereby severally enter into a firm...account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever." Once again, a justification for entering a firm league of friendship" with other...