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To: rockrr
Article XIII from the Articles of Confederation:

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.

I don't profess to be a scholar of History but maybe Article 13 was one of the reasons they decided to toss out the Articles of Confederation and start again from scratch.

39 posted on 06/24/2016 10:32:12 PM PDT by Getsmart64
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To: Getsmart64
I don't profess to be a scholar of History but maybe Article 13 was one of the reasons they decided to toss out the Articles of Confederation and start again from scratch.

If I remember correctly, it was more of a case of the federal government not having exclusive jurisdiction at the seat of government.

Ironically, few people realize the way the Founders left the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union is that they succeeded from it.

Consequently whenever the people of any state, or number of states, discovered the inadequacy of the first form of federal government to promote or preserve their independence, happiness, and union, they only exerted that natural right in rejecting it, and adopting another, which all had unanimously assented to, and of which no force or compact can deprive the people of any state, whenever they see the necessity, and possess the power to do it. And since the seceding states, by establishing a new constitution and form of federal government among themselves, without the consent of the rest, have shown that they consider the right to do so whenever the occasion may, in their opinion require it, as unquestionable, we may infer that that right has not been diminished by any new compact which they may since have entered into, since none could be more solemn or explicit than the first, nor more binding upon the contracting parties. Their obligation, therefore, to preserve the present constitution, is not greater than their former obligations were, to adhere to the articles of confederation; each state possessing the same right of withdrawing itself from the confederacy without the consent of the rest, as any number of them do, or ever did, possess.
Of the Several Forms of Government, St. George Tucker, View of the Constitution of the United States, Section XIII, 1803

41 posted on 06/25/2016 2:39:09 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a person as created by the Law of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man.)
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