[aristeides]

The Aticles were dissolved. There was no secession involved. There was nothing left to seceed from.

I don't think that's what North Carolina and Rhode Island thought.

[aristeides]

And even one state -- never mind two -- had the right to prevent the dissolution of the Articles, which proclaimed themselves perpetual and which, under their terms, could only be modified by a unanimous decision of the states.

[hirn_man]

Gosh I was unaware that those two states hadn't joined the Union.

What country did North Carolina and Rhode Island form?