[WhiskeyPapa]

The only LEGAL method of changing the AoC was if all 13 states agreed, yet it was dissolved when only 9 states ratified the Constitution.

I think I finally get it. So this is like income tax being illegal because Ohio never properly ratified the Constitution, right?

Walt

[4CJ]

Articles Of Confederation, Article XIII - 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.

Either the new government was formed illegally or it wasn't. You tell me what it means. If there are 13 states at the time as members of the union, and the AoC requires ALL of them to agree to changes, it must mean just that - to change it. To secede from it, or dissolve it required "zero" states to agree.