 The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered...  The Northwestern Reporter - Page 2221920Full view - About this book
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 552 pages
...Jldams' correspondence with Cunningham, pp. 172, 173. «les of confederation, the states entered into " a firm league of friendship with each other, for their...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare," &c. By the new constitution, as the preamble declares, " the people" united and established... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1839 - 556 pages
...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 the 17th of November,... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 752 pages
...confederation, signed at Philadelphia, on the 9th of July, 1778, entered into "a league of friendship with eaoh other for their common defense, the security of their liberties and their general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made... | |
 | Daniel Chipman - Judges - 1846 - 422 pages
...several states hereby 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." In determining questions in congress, as all independent sovereigns are equal in dignity, however unequal... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...independence, and every power and right not expressly delegated to congress. The states entered into a " firm league of friendship with each other, for their...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare." Congress was composed of delegates, not less than two nor more than seven, from each... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - Law - 1857 - 834 pages
...Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, hi congress assembled. ARTICLE m. The eaid states hereby severally enter into a firm league of...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare ; bidding themselves to assist each other against all force ofl'ered to, or attacks... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ARTICLE 3. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general -welfare ; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ARTICLE 3. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 pages
...this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ARTICLE 3. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - History - 1862 - 688 pages
...each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence. The third article avows that "the said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of...security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made... | |
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