"Adoption" of the Constitution for the United States of America

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I am not sure where you want the thread to go but...

Mainly pointing out that even in a multi-volume legal treatise it was pointed out that the Constitutional issue was not carried out in a manner commensurate with Article XIII of the Articles of Confederation--at least not initially. Considering the author(s) being attorneys, though they may not have deeply expounded upon the matter, the mention is significant.

ARTICLE XIII. Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States {ALL of them otherwise it might merely be a "committee of the States or nine of them"--Article X implies Congress always means all of them"}, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State.

Alterations/amendments to the Articles had to be made in a Congress of ALL of the United States--nothing mentioned about a "Convention". Nonetheless, if the Constitution was only made with respect to territories of the United States, perhaps compliance with Article XIII was unnecessary.

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It is interesting the term "Ratified" is used with an uppercase in the attachment. The evidence weighs strongly that the Constitution was merely a charter for a territorial government despite appearances.

P.S. What a 'coincidence' that at the start of the Civil War, only nine states remained in the Union ("the North") that were party to the Articles of Confederation. Just a 'coincidence'.

Of the original parties to the Articles of Confederation, these nine remained after the Civil War started:

1. Massachusetts (or "Massachusetts Bay"?)
2. New Hampshire
3. New Jersey
4. New York
5. Pennsylvania
6. Rhode Island
7. Delaware
8. Maryland
9. Connecticut

The coincidence is that such an arrangement would allow those nine states to "run the show" under Article X of the Articles of Confederation.

Related:

• Violence and the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution in New York City
• Conspiracy in Philadelphia - Gary North
• Secrecy and the Constitutional Convention - Center for Civic Education, Calabasas, California
• The Federal Zone
• Commentaries On the United States Constitution by Dr. Dale Livingston