Articles of Confederation Text in the United States

Text of the Articles of Confederation

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 New Hampshire, Massachusetts bay, Rhode Island 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 New Hampshire, Massachusetts bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. (1)

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• Articles of Confederation Article I
• Articles of Confederation Article II
• Articles of Confederation Article III
• Articles of Confederation Article IV
• Articles of Confederation Article V
• Articles of Confederation Article VI
• Articles of Confederation Article VII
• Articles of Confederation Article VIII
• Differences between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
• What were the Articles of Confederation
• Who wrote the Articles of Confederation

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Notes and References

1. Encarta Online Encyclopedia

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