...mutual assistance: "The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever." Articles Four through Thirteen provided detailed information regarding operational matters. In the...

...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...religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.15 The Confederate States of America were created as a result of this claim. The concept of...

...Congress assembled. ni. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their...religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatsoever. IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people...

...a government was not being created.) Article III established "a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their...account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever." A unicameral Congress was the governing body of the confederation and was composed...

...i3, §77 ART. III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their...attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account ot religfon, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. ART. IV. The better to secure and...

...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...against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, Sources: See Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States, 69th Cong.,...

...US Constitution: "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 general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks...

...arguments for a strong central government and chose instead a "firm league of friendship," united primarily "for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare...." 43 When the Constitutional Convention assembled in l787, the need for a strong...

...assembled. AHT. III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. ART. IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of...

...assembled. ART. in. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,...