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A Narrative of the Articles Of Confederation · Voices Of Life

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  This is the Voices of Life podcast, the ministry
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  of the Church for Life, and I'm your host, Pastor
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  David. As part of our six -week journey and celebration
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  of the United States enduring 250 years, we are
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  presenting you the complete Articles of Confederation,
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  the document that held the colonies together
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  during their war with Great Britain and helped
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  pave the way for our freedom today. The Articles
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  of Confederation and Perpetual Union. Adopted
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  by the Continental Congress, November 15th, 1777.
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  Ratified March 1st, 1781. Narration begins. Preamble.
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  To all to whom these presents shall come, we
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  the undersigned delegates of the states affixed
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  to our name send greeting. Whereas the delegates
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  of the United States of America in Congress assembled
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  did on the 15th day of November in the year of
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  our Lord 1777 and in the second year of the independence
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  of America, agreed to certain articles of confederation
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  and perpetual union between the states of New
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  Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and
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  Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York,
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  New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
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  Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and
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  Georgia in the words following viz, the style
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  of this confederacy shall be. The United States
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  of America. Each state retains its sovereignty,
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  freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction,
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  and right, which is not by this confederation
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  expressly delegated to the United States in Congress
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  assembled. The said states hereby severally enter
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  into a firm league of friendship with each other.
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  For their common defense, the security of their
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  liberties and their mutual and general welfare.
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  Binding themselves to assist each other against
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  all force offered to or attacks made upon them
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  or any of them on account of religion, sovereignty,
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  trade or any other pretense whatever. The better
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  to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and
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  intercourse among the people of the different
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  states in this union. The free inhabitants of
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  each of these states, paupers, vagabonds, and
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  fugitives from justice accepted, shall be entitled
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  to all privileges and immunities of free citizens
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  in the several states. And the people of each
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  state shall have free ingress and regress to
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  and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein
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  all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject
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  to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions
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  as the inhabitants thereof. respectively provided
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  that such restrictions shall not extend so far
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  as to prevent the removal of property imported
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  into any state to any other state of which the
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  owner is an inhabitant provided also that no
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  imposition duties or restrictions shall be laid
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  by any state on the property of the united states
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  or either of them If any person guilty of or
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  charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor
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  in any state shall flee from justice and be found
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  in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand
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  of the governor or executive power of the state
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  from which he fled, be delivered up and removed
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  to the state having jurisdiction of his offense.
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  Full faith and credit shall be given in each
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  of these states to the records, acts, and judicial
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  proceedings of the courts and magistrates of
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  every other state. For the more convenient management
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  of the general interest of the United States,
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  delegates shall be annually appointed in such
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  manner as the legislature of each state shall
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  direct to meet in Congress on the first Monday
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  in November. In every year, with a power reserved
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  to each state to recall its delegates, or any
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  of them, at any time within the year, and to
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  send others in their stead for the remainder
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  of the year. No state shall be represented in
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  Congress by less than two, nor more than seven
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  members. And no person shall be capable of being
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  a delegate for more than three years in any term
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  of six years. Nor shall any person, being a delegate,
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  be capable of holding any office under the United
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  States, for which he, or another for his benefit,
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  receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any
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  kind. Each state shall maintain its own delegates
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  in a meeting of the states, and while they act
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  as members of the committee of the states. In
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  determining questions in the United States and
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  Congress assembled, each state shall have one
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  vote. Freedom of speech and debate in Congress
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  shall not be impeached or questioned in any court
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  or place out of Congress. And the members of
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  Congress shall be protected in their persons
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  from arrests and imprisonments during the time
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  of their going to and from and attendance on
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  Congress, except for treason, felony, or breach
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  of the peace. Article 6. No state, without the
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  consent of the United States in Congress assembled,
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  shall send any embassy to or receive any embassy
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  from, or enter into any conference, agreement,
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  alliance, or treaty with any king, prince, or
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  state, nor shall any person holding any office
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  of profit or trust under the United States, or
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  any of them. Accept any present emolument, office,
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  or title of any kind, whatever from any king,
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  prince, or foreign state. Nor shall the United
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  States in Congress assembled, or any of them,
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  grant any title of nobility. No two or more states
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  shall enter into any treaty, confederation, or
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  alliance, whatever between them, without the
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  consent of the United States in Congress assembled.
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  No state shall lay any imposts or duties which
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  may interfere with any stipulations and treaties
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  entered into by the United States No vessel of
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  war shall be kept up in time of peace by any
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  state Except such number only as shall be deemed
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  necessary by the United States in Congress assembled
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  Every state shall always keep up a well regulated
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  and disciplined militia When land forces are
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  raised by any state for the common defense, all
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  officers of or under the rank of colonel shall
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  be appointed by the legislature of each state
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  respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised,
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  or in such manner as such state shall direct.
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  All charges of war and all other expenses that
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  shall be incurred for the common defense or general
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  welfare and allowed by the United States in Congress
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  assembled shall be defrayed out of a common treasury,
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  which shall be supplied by the several states
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  in proportion to the value of all land within
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  each state, granted to or surveyed for any person.
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  As such land and the buildings and improvements
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  thereon shall be estimated. according to such
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  mode as the United States in Congress assembled,
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  shall from time to time direct and appoint the
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  taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid
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  and levied by the authority and direction of
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  the legislatures of the several states. The United
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  States in Congress assembled shall have the sole
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  and exclusive right and power of determining
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  on peace and war. except in the cases mentioned
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  in the sixth article of sending and receiving
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  ambassadors entering into treaties and alliances
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  provided that no treaty of commerce shall be
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  made whereby the legislative power of the respective
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  states shall be restrained from imposing such
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  in posts and duties on foreigners as their own
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  people are subjected to or from prohibiting the
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  exportation or importation of any species of
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  goods or commodities whatsoever. They shall have
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  the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating
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  the alloy and value of coins struck by their
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  own authority, or by that of the respective states,
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  fixing the standards of weights and measures.
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  regulating the trade and managing all affairs
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  with the Indians, not members of any of the states,
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  establishing or regulating post offices, appointing
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  all officers of the land forces in the service
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  of the United States, accepting regimental officers,
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  and making rules for the government and regulation
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  of the said land and naval forces. The United
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  States and Congress assembled shall be the last
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  resort on appeal in all disputes and differences
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  now subsisting, or that hereafter may arise between
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  two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction,
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  or any other cause whatever. The Congress of
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  the United States shall have power to appoint
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  a committee to sit in the recess of Congress.
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  To be denominated a committee of the states and
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  to appoint such other committees and civil officers
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  as may be necessary for managing the general
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  affairs of the United States under their direction.
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  The Committee of the States, or any nine of them,
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  shall be authorized to execute, in the recess
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  of Congress, such of the powers of Congress,
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  as the United States in Congress assembled, by
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  the consent of nine states, shall think expedient
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  to vest them with. Canada, acceding to this Confederation,
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  and joining in the measures of the United States,
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  shall be admitted into. and entitled to all the
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  advantages of this union. But no other colony
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  shall be admitted into the same unless such admission
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  be agreed to by nine states. All bills of credit
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  admitted, monies borrowed, and debts contracted
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  by, or under the authority of Congress before
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  the assembling of the United States in pursuance
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  of the present Confederation. shall be deemed
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  and considered as a charge against the United
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  States. Article 13. Every state shall abide by
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  the determinations of the United States in Congress
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  assembled on all questions which by this Confederation
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  are submitted to them. and the Articles of this
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  Confederation shall be inviolably observed by
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  every State, and the Union shall be perpetual.
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  Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter
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  be made in any of them, unless such alteration
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  be agreed to in a Congress of the United States,
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  and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures
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  of every State. New Hampshire. Josiah Bartlett.
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  John Wentworth Jr. Massachusetts Bay. John Hancock.
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  Samuel Adams. Elbridge Gerry. Francis Dana. James
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  Lovell. Samuel Holton. Rhode Island. William
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  Ellery. Henry Marchant. John Collins. Connecticut.
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  Roger Sherman. Samuel Huntington. Oliver Wolcott.
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  Titus Hosmer. Andrew Adams. New York. James Duane.
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  Francis Lewis. William Doerr. Gouverneur Morris.
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  New Jersey. John Witherspoon. Nathaniel Scudder.
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  Pennsylvania. Robert Morris. Daniel Robert Doe.
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  Jonathan Bayard Smith. William Klingon. Joseph
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  Reed. Delaware Thomas McKean John Dickinson Nicholas
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  Van Dyke Maryland John Hanson Daniel Carroll
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  Virginia Richard Henry Lee John Bannister Thomas
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  Adams John Harvey Francis Lightfoot Lee North
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  Carolina John Penn Cornelius Harnett John Williams
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  South Carolina Henry Lawrence William Henry Drayden
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  John Matthews Richard Hudson, Thomas Hayward
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  Jr., Georgia, John Walton, Edward Telfair, Edward
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  Langworthy. Thank you for joining us today on
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  Voices of Life, a ministry of the Church for
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  Life. I'm Pastor David, your host, and we'll
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  see you next time.