 | 1839 - 556 pages
...article, degraded from its place as the second, the firm league of friendship of these several states with each other, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare. In the debates upon these articles of confederation, between the 7th of October, and... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 pages
...expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ARTICLE III. • The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare ; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks... | |
 | Elisha P. Hurlbut - 1840 - 230 pages
...capacity, under the style of " The United States of America." By these articles the States entered into a firm league of friendship with each other " for their...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare — binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1840 - 348 pages
...be very imperfect. The states had severally entered, as expressed in one of the articles, " into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare." But as it was a mere league was the state of the country at the close of the war... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 pages
...freedom, and independence, and all powers which were not expressly delegated to congress. It was a " league of friendship with each other, for their common...liberties, and their mutual and general welfare," &c. And, "the better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the... | |
 | 1842 - 668 pages
...confederation expressly delegated to the United States, m Congress assembled. ART. III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered te, or attacks... | |
 | 1842 - 680 pages
...assembled. A»T. 1H. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship -.••iil, 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... | |
 | Henry Sherman - 1843 - 302 pages
...confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. Art. 3. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 pages
...States, in Congress assembled. The third article declared, that the states severally entered into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare ; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1844 - 612 pages
...confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ART. 3. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare ; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks... | |
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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... 
