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

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The first three scans are from from American Law & Procedure [1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913], Volume 12, pages 11 and 12 and such. It seems noteworthy that 1) the author makes it clear that unanimous consent was required to amend the Articles of Confederation; 2) the meeting was for "rendering Federal Government" [said nothing of state governments] and regarding the Union {which was only 'territorial' for the most part}. Also of great importance is scan #4 of Article X and XI of the Articles of Confederation (US government edition) regarding "nine states powers" (i.e. powers already delegated to Congress under the Articles of Confederation?). If Congress was acting in a territorial capacity and without the original states would Congress be required to adhere to the "unanimous" requirement of the Articles of Confederation? Is the "nine states requirement" of the Constitution tacit and clear admission that the Constitution was only ever a territorial charter?

Would "Federal Government" have been referring to anything other than U.S. territorial government or both the territorial and the confederacy governments?

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Rhode Island not present? What of New York? Unanimous impossible at the convention at least.

"new government" as in "new territorial government"? Constitutional 9 states requirements "coincidentally" jibes with Article X of the Articles of Confederation concerning powers already delegated to Congress. Northwest Ordinance? Cession of Territories?

The Constitution came to exist around September, 1787--AFTER the states had ceded their territories to the Confederacy and AFTER the Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787) had been passed by the "Articles of Confederation Congress".

The Northwest Ordinance, adopted July 13, 1787, by the Second Continental Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. Following the principles outlined by Thomas Jefferson in the Ordinance of 1784, the authors of the Northwest Ordinance (probably Nathan Dane and Rufus King) spelled out a plan that was subsequently used as the country expanded to the Pacific.