ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION - INTRODUCTION
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
LESSON 1: Article
I - Article III
INTRODUCTION
Article I - Article III
Linked are; the 1871 Organic Act to provide a Government for the District of Columbia, access to the Organic Laws with a Preface, the 1776 unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America and the 1777 Articles of Confederation, and three Pennsylvania ACTs; from 1700 an ACT AGAINST BARRATORS and FALSE SWEARING, from 1782, an ACT to prevent the erecting any new and independent STATE within the limits of this commonwealth and, from 1781, an ACT to Incorporate the SUBSCRIBERS TO THE Bank of North America; an ACT that was (apparently) passed in 1782, repealed in 1785, and revived in 1787; six (6) months before the U.S. Constitution was ratified by nine (9) States that had not submitted their Constitutions to "the people" for ratification.
OBJECTIVES
The 1776 Declaration suggests that the IDEAL method
of problem solving and decision making was used to frame our INTENDED FORM of
GOVERNMENT.
(1) The
Cause was accurately IDENTIFIED, (2) a Remedy was DESCRIBED, a process for accomplishment
was EVALUATED and (3) ACTED
upon. Today, we LEARN from our successes
and failures and look, again, to the IDEAL.
In Congress, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for
one people to (1) dissolve
the political bands which have connected them with another, and to (2) assume among
the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature
and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires
that they should (3) declare
the causes which impel them to the separation.
TOPICS
Who were
considered “Freemen” when the colonies were chartered?
Is it “a privilege to be admitted to the Freedom of the
City”?
Given the 1785 definition of “Livery[i]”,
what U.S. Department is today’s equivalent of “ftabling”?
Acquaint yourself with what may very well be the
bankers’ textbook.
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BANKING - 1892
Chapter I – Definition of Terms
Our
Documents
To all to whom these Presents shall come, we, the
undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Whereas
the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the
fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree
to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of
Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in the Words following, viz.
“Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of
Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Article I. The Stile
of this confederacy shall be, “The United States of America.”
Article
II. Each state retains its
sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right,
which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in
Congress assembled.
Article
III. The said states hereby
severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their
common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general
welfare, binding themselves 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 pretence whatever.
What “fet of fteps” are required “to
pafs from one enclofure to another”?
Article 1§8 U.S. Constitution - To exercise
exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not
exceeding ten Miles square), as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of
Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of
the State in which the Same shall be for the Erection of Forts, Magazines,
Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; – And
To make all Laws which shall be
necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the
foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the
Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
RESOURCES for your LIBRARY
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION – 1777
“Paper Money”
For
British insights on “Paper Money” in the Colonies see
“Land Bank”
For
British insights, search for the term “land bank” in the following link:
POLITICAL BANDS
“Freehold”
JOHNSON’S 1785 DICTIONARY - Volume I – Page 833 –
“Freehold”
https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofengl01johnuoft#page/n5/mode/2up or PDF at https://ia801406.us.archive.org/21/items/dictionaryofengl01johnuoft/dictionaryofengl01johnuoft.pdf
JOHNSON’S 1785 DICTIONARY - Volume II – Page 744 – “Stile”
Commentaries on
the Laws of England (1765-1769) - Sir William Blackstone
Bouvier’s Law
Dictionary 1856 Edition
Search the National
Archives and Records Administration for the words
“BANK OF NORTH AMERICA”
For additional
background and facts about the BANK OF NORTH AMERICA matter, below are links to
ACTS from the Pennsylvania Statutes at Large.
Pages are missing in archive Volume II
– For “Livery”. However, access to missing
pages 2013-2016 may be accessed at another resource at http://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/?page_id=7070&i=1215
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