“When the Constitution was ratified, New York was about to invade New Jersey.”
Can you provide a citation. -OGINJ
From an article I read years ago, I’m afraid I can’t recall the source and I’m on the clock rn.
The problem with the country when it started out, was that the old colonial charters drew borders that were incredibly ambiguous and conflicted. Throw in the fact that many colonies were “cross-pollinated” by people from other colonies. Long Island was colonized by people from Connecticut. You can still find old New England congregationalist churches on the east coast of some deep southern states. This was the genesis of the land war between PA and Connecticut during the Revolution. Everyone thought they had a claim on the land of everyone else.