Articles of Confederation

1. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated John Taylor of Caroline 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

   ch. 7 · ch. 14

   Quoted directly as the 'first union' and relied upon as evidence that state sovereignty was retained from the outset of the American union.

   The first “retains the sovereignty and rights to the states not delegated to the United States.

2. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Lysander Spooner 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages

   secondly. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 10

   Explicitly invoked as precedent consistent with the author's preferred meaning of 'free'.

   If we adopt that meaning of the word “free,” which is consistent with freedom—that meaning which is consistent with natural right—the meaning given to it by the Articles of Confederation, by the then existing State constitutions, by the colonial charters, and by the English law ever since our ancestors enjoyed the name of freemen, all these difficulties, inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdi …

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