Re: Article V - an analysis (fwd)

[Todd Larason <jtl@molehill.org>]

On 981126, Douglas L. Peterson wrote:
> The Articles of Confederation 
> Article XIII.
> 
> ... 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, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures
> of every State.

> The convention, the States, and the current Congress did as was
> required under Article XIII.

The Convention did not.  It produced a document which, by ITS rules, went
into effect after having been ratified by 9 of 13 states, not all 13 as
required by Article XIII.
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