admended Articles of Confederation [US of the A]

My US of the A Timeline has reached the Article of Confederation Point, So I am posting my Version, [original here http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/artconf.htm ]
I took the original 13, added the 7 they were sent to Phillidelphia to Debate, and then rewrote all 21 based on several other proposals [Pinckey's & the Hartford 1811 admentments. ect.] ?Will they hold together till after the War in 1808? When other thing start happening.
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To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting.

Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of -- Nova Scottia, Arcadia, Quebec, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Rhode-Island , Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Marysland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ontatio, Bemuda, Bahamas.
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ARTICLE I.

The Stile of this Confederacy shall be

"The United States of the Americas".
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ARTICLE II.

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.
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ARTICLE III.

The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.
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ARTICLE IV.

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 fugitives 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 free ingress and regress to and 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, on 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 which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offense.

"The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State."
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ARTICLE V.

For the most convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislatures of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in May, in every year, with a power reserved to each State to recall its delegates, 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; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind.

Congress shall have the power to establish a Office of the Census Which sall under take a complete Emumeration of the Population of the several States, and shall gather other such infomastion as Congress shall propose.

Following Said Emumeration Congress sitting as a committee of the States shall set the numbers of delagates for each State, Intil such Emumeration the following Delagates will be used

Nova Scottia- four Arcadia- one Quebec- six
Maine- one New Hampshire- three, Massachusetts- five
Rhode-Island- one, Connecticut- five, New-York- six,
New Jersey- four Pennsylvania- seven Marysland- seven
Virginia- seven, North Carolina- five South Carolina- five
Georgia- three Florida- one Alabama- one
Bemuda- one Bahama- one


Each State shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States, and while they act as members of the committee of the States.

In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each Delagate 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 or imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendence on Congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace.
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ARTICLE VI.

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 any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever 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.

The United States in Congress Assembled shall have the power to to regulate commerce with Foreign Nations and among the several States,
No State shall have the power to lay imposts or duties upon another state or Foreign Nation, excepting Taxation which is equally layed upon all goods or services within the state

No vessel of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the United States in Congress assembled, for the defense 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 judgement of the United States in Congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defense of such State; but every State shall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutered, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of filed pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage.

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 received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay till 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 that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the United States in Congress assembled shall determine otherwise.
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ARTICLE VII.

Congress shall have the Power to establish a Department of War, and a Department of the Navy, The purpose of which is to Co-ordinate the Land and Naval Militias of the Several States.
Congress shall have to power to raise a Standing Military, to repond to Emerercys, Till the several States can respond. Or to protect such property and persons outside the territories under the jurisdiction of the several states, but under the aurthority of the United States Congress.

When land forces are raised by any State for the common defense, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be appointed by the legislature of each State respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such State shall direct, and all vacancies shall be filled up by the State which first made the appointment.
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ARTICLE VIII.

All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense 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 Property within each State, granted or surveyed for 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.

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.
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ARTICLE IX.

The United States in Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the 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 legislative power of the respective States 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 or water shall be legal, and 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 times of peace -- appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies commited on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the 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 hereafter may arise between two or more States concerning boundary, or jurisdiction; For which purpose the Various states do hereby submit all Land Claims outside of their present borders to settlement by "Congress sitting as a Committee of the States"

Shall any Territory under the Jurisdiction of the United States seek to become a State, The Inhabitants therein shall submitt a copy of their proposed Consitution, and upon acceptance by Three out of Four of the Delagates, shall be issued a Charter of Statehood, and admitted to this Congress on the same standing as all other States.

All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more States, whose jurisdictions as they may respect such lands, and the States which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined as near as may be in the same manner as is before presecribed for deciding disputes respecting territorial jurisdiction between different States.

The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States -- fixing the standards of weights and measures throughout the United States -- regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated.

Congress shall have the power to establish a Department of the Postal Services, Whose purpose shall be to establishing or regulating post offices & Postal Companies from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office.


Congress shall have the power to Establish a Department of the Treasury, Whose purpose shall be to ascertain the necessary sums of money to be raised for the service of the United States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses -- to borrow money, or emit bills on the credit of the United States, transmitting every half-year to the respective States an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted. The Department of the Treasury shall Oversee such Banks as Congress shall Charter, and will Regulate the minting of Coins, and issuance of Bank notes, so as they are uniform across the States, and Territories

Congress Shall have the power -- to build and equip a navy -- to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each State for its quota, in proportion to the number of Free inhabitants in such State; which requisition shall be binding, and thereupon the legislature of each State shall appoint the regimental officers, raise the men and cloath, arm and equip them in a solid-like manner, at the expense of the United States; and the officers and men so cloathed, armed and equipped shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled. But if the United States in Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered, cloathed, armed and equipped in the same manner as the quota of each State, unless the legislature of such State shall judge that such extra number cannot be safely spread out in the same, in which case they shall raise, officer, cloath, arm and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared. And the officers and men so cloathed, armed, and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled.

The United States in Congress assembled shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque or reprisal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor regulate the value thereof, nor ascertain the sums and expenses necessary for the defense and welfare of the United States, or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war, to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless two out of each three States assent to the same: nor shall a question on any other point, except for adjourning from day to day be determined, unless by the votes of the majority of the United States in Congress assembled.

The Congress of the United States shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year, and to any place within the United States, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six months, and shall publish the journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgement require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each State on any question shall be entered on the journal, when it is desired by any delegates of a State, or any of them, at his or their request shall be furnished with a transcript of the said journal, except such parts as are above excepted, to lay before the legislatures of the several States.
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ARTICLE X.

The Committee of the States, or any Two out of each three of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress as the United States in Congress assembled, by the consent of the States, shall from time to time think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the said Committee, for the exercise of which, by the Articles of Confederation, the voice of Two out of each three States in the Congress of the United States assembled be requisite.
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ARTICLE XI.

New Foundland, Labordor, and The Hudson Bay territories acceding to this confederation, and adjoining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by Two out of each three States.
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ARTICLE XII.

All bills of credit emitted, monies borrowed, and debts contracted by, or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States, and the public faith are hereby solemnly pleged.
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ARTICLE XIII.

Every State shall abide by the determination of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
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ARTICLE XIV.

The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive power of regulating the trade of the states, as well with foreign nations as with each other, and of laying such prohibitions and such imposts, and duties upon, imports and exports, as may be necessary for the purpose; provided the citizens of the states shall in no instance be subjected to pay higher duties and imposts than those imposed on the subjects of foreign powers; provided also, that all such duties as may be imposed, shall be collected under such regulations as the United States in Congress assembled shall establish, consistent with the constitutions of the states respectively, and to accrue to the use of the state in which the same shall be payable; and provided lastly, that every act of Congress for the above purpose, shall have the assent of two of the each three delagates in Congress assembled.
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ARTICLE XV.

That the respective states may be induced to perform the several duties, mutually and solemnly agreed to be performed by their federal compact; and to prevent unreasonable delays in any state in furnishing her just proportion of the common charges of the union when called upon, and those essential evils which have heretofore often arisen to the confederacy from such delays, it is agreed, that whenever a requisition shall be made by Congress upon the several states on the principles of the confederation for their quotas of the common charges or land forces of the union, Congress shall fix the proper periods when the states shall pass legislative acts complying therewith, and give full and complete [?] to the same; and if any state shall neglect seasonably to pass such acts, such state shall be charged with an additional sum to her quota, called for from the time she may be required to pay or furnish the same, which additional sum or charge, shall be at the rate of ten per cent. per annum on her said quota; and if the requisition shall be for land forces, and any state shall neglect to furnish her quota in time, the average expence of such quota shall be ascertained by Congress, and such state shall be charged therewith, or with the average expence of what she may be deficient and in addition thereto, from the time her forces were required to be ready to act in the field, with a farther sum, which sum shall be at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum of the amount of such expence.
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ARTICLE XVI.

And that the resources of any state which may be negligent in furnishing her just proportion of the common expence of the union, may in a reasonable time be applied; it is further agreed, that if any state shall to neglect as aforesaid, to pass laws in compliance with the said requisition, and to adopt measures to give the same full effect, for the space of ten months, and it shall then or afterwards be found that a majority of the states have passed such laws, and adopted such measures, the United States in Congress assembled shall have full power and authority to levy, assess and collect all sums and duties with which any such state so neglecting to comply with the requisition, may stand charged on the same by the laws and rules by which the last state tax next preceding such requisition in such state, was levied, assessed and collected; to apportion the sum so required on the towns or counties in such state, to order the sums so apportioned to be assessed by the assessors of such last state tax, and the said assessments to be committed to the collectors of the same last state tax, to collect and to make return of such assessments and commitments to the treasurer of the United States, who, by himself, or his deputy, when directed by Congress, shall have power to recover the monies of such collectors for the use of the United States in the same manner, and under the same penalties as state taxes are recovered and collected by the treasurers of the respective states; and the several towns or counties respectively, shall be responsible for the conduct of said assessors and collectors, and in case there shall be any vacancy in any of said offices of assessors or collectors, by death, removal, refusal to serve, resignation or otherwise, then other fit persons shall be chosen to fill such vacancies in the usual manner in such town or county, within twenty days after notice of the assessment, and in case any towns or counties, any assessors, collectors or sheriffs, shall neglect or refuse to do their duty, Congress shall have the same rights and powers to compel them that the state may have in assessing and collecting state taxes.
And if any state, by any legislative act, shall prevent or delay the due collection of said sums, as aforesaid, Congress shall have full power and authority to appoint assessors and collectors thereof, and sheriffs to enforce the collections under the warrants of distress issued by the treasurer of the United States; and if any further opposition shall be made to such collections by the state or the citizens thereof, and their conduct not disapproved of by the state, such conduct, on the part of the state, shall be considered as an open violation of the federal compact.
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ARTICLE XVII.

And any state which, from time to time, shall be found in her payments on any requisition in advance on an average of the payments made by the states, shall be allowed an interest of .......... per cent. per annum on her said advanced sums or expences; and the state which, from time to time shall be found in arrear on the principles aforesaid, shall be charged with an interest of .......... per cent. per annum, on the sums in which she may be so in arrear.
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ARTICLE XVIII.

In case it shall hereafter be found necessary by Congress to establish any new systems of revenue, and to make any new regulations in the finances of the United States for a limited term, not exceeding fifteen years, in their operation, for supplying the common treasury with monies for defraying all charges of war, and all other expences that shall be incurred for the common defence, or general welfare; and such new systems or regulations shall be agreed to and adopted by the United States in Congress assembled, and afterwards be confirmed by the legislatures of Three out of each Four, the same shall become binding on all the states as fully as if the legislatures of all the states should confirm the same.
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ARTICLE XIX.

The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive power of declaring what offences against the United States shall be deemed treason, and what offences against the same, misprision of treason, and what offences shall be deemed piracy or felony on the high seas, and to annex suitable punishments to all the offences aforesaid respectively, and power to institute a Supreme federal judicial court, for trying and punishing all officers appointed by Congress, for all crimes, offences and misbehaviour in their offices, and to which court an appeal shall be allowed from the judicial courts of the several states, in all causes wherein questions shall arise on the meaning and construction of treaties entered into by the United States with any foreign power, or on the law of nations, or wherein any question shall arise respecting any regulations that may hereafter be made by Congress relative to trade and commerce, or the collection of federal revenues pursuant to powers that shall be vested in that body, or wherein questions of importance may arise, and the United States shall be a party; provided, that the trial of the fact by jury shall ever be held sacred, and also the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus; provided also, that no member of Congress, or officer holding any other office under the United States shall be a judge of said court;
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ARTICLE XX.

That due attention may be given to the affairs of the union early in the federal year, and the sessions of Congress made as short as conveniently may be, each state shall elect her delegates annually before the first of April, and make effectual provision for filling the places of those who may decline, and it shall be the indispensable duty of delegates to make a representation of their state in Congress, on the first Monday of May annually; and if any delegate or delegates, when required by Congress to attend so far as may be necessary to keep up a representation of each state in Congress, or having taken his or their feat, shall withdraw without leave of Congress, unless recalled by the state, he or they shall be proceeded against as Congress shall direct; provided no punishment shall be further extended than to disqualifications any longer to be members of Congress, or to hold any office of trust or profit under the United States, or any individual state, and the several states shall adopt regulations effectual to the attainment of the ends of this article.
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ARITCLE XXI

The Executive power of the United States shall be vested in a President of the United States. He shall be elected by a majority of the United States in Congress assembled From all canidates as Submitted from the States, in a manner to be determimed by said States.

He shall hold his office during the term of seven years; but shall not be elected a second time.

The President of the United States', shall have authority to appoint a committee to be denominated 'A Cabinet of the President', to consist of The Heads of the Various Departments; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction.

He shall, from time to time, give information to the Legislature of the State of the Union: he may recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary, and expedient: he may convene them on extraordinary occasions. He shall commission all the officers of the United States; and shall appoint officers in all cases not otherwise provided for by this constitution.

He shall receive Ambassadors, and may correspond with the Executives of the several States.

He shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons.

He shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. And of the Militia of the several States, during such times as the Congress does pass a Bill of Emeremcy.
He shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during his continuance in office.

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ARITCLE XXII

And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union. Know Ye that we the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents, in the name and in behalf of our respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm each and every of the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union, and all and singular the matters and things therein contained: And we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said Confederation are submitted to them. And that the Articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the States we respectively represent, and that the Union shall be perpetual.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in Congress. Done at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania the ninth day of July in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight, and in the Third Year of the independence of America.

Agreed to by Congress 15 August 1775 In force after ratification by the States and Ratified by the Consitutional Congress 06-May-1776
 
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