The Articles of Confederation
Nov. 15, 1777英语topic
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To all to whom the Prents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names nd greeting.
Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachutts-bay Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jery, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
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The Stile of this Confederacy shall be "The United States of America".
II.
Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdictio
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n, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress asmbled.
III.
The said States hereby verally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defen, the curity of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themlves 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 preten whatever.
IV.
paradoxicallyThe better to cure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercour among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of the States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the veral States; and the people of each State shall free in
gress 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.
cet4真题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 offen.
Full faith and credit shall be given in each of the States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
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 November, in every year, with a powerrerved to each State to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to nd others in their stead for the remainder of the year.咀嚼是什么意思
No State shall be reprented in Congress by less than two, nor more than ven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; 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.
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 asmbled, each State 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.
VI.
No State, without the connt of the United States in Congress asmbled, shall nd 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 prent, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any King, Prince or foreign State; nor shall the United States in Congress asmbled, 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 connt of the United States in Congress asmbled, specifying accurately the purpos for which the same is to be entered into, and how long
it shall continue.
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