Articles of Confederation
object · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
The articles of confederation · the first union · the then existing national compact of union · union between the United States of America
in the texts
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The prior national compact of the United States, cited as consistent precedent for the meaning of 'free'.
The Articles of Confederation—the then existing national compact of union—used the word in this sense and no other.
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 …
The articles of confederation had given none;
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The first American constitutional compact, quoted and compared with the Constitution regarding the retention of state sovereignty and powers.
The first “union between the United States of America for their common defence and general welfare“ begins where the second ends.