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  2. Perpetual Union - Wikipedia

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    The Perpetual Union is a feature of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, which established the United States of America as a political entity and, under later constitutional law, means that U.S. states are not permitted to withdraw from the Union.

  3. Articles of Confederation - Wikipedia

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    The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. It was debated by the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between July 1776 and November 1777, and finalized by the ...

  4. Article Four of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    At the time, the Rhode Island constitution was the old royal charter established in the 17th century. By the 1840s, only 40% of the state's free white males were enfranchised. An attempt to hold a popular convention to write a new constitution was declared insurrection by the charter government, and the convention leaders were arrested.

  5. Confederation period - Wikipedia

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    The resulting constitution, which came to be known as the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, provided for a weak central government with little power to coerce the state governments. [4] The first article of the new constitution established a name for the new federation – the United States of America. [5]

  6. Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address - Wikipedia

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    Because the union established under the Articles was explicitly perpetual in name and text, the union under the Constitution was also perpetual. He added that even if the Constitution were to be construed as a simple contract, it could not be legally rescinded without an agreement between all parties, meaning all of the states, North and South.

  7. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was the first constitution of the United States. [28] The document was drafted by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress in mid-June 1777 and was adopted by the full Congress in mid-November of that year. Ratification by the 13 colonies took more than three years and was ...

  8. Secession Is Back in Style in Texas - AOL

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    That power, Abbott claims, is embedded in Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution, which provides, "no state shall, without the Consent of Congress…engage in war, unless actually ...

  9. Charters of Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Along the Charters of Freedom is a dual display of the "Formation of the Union", including documents related to the evolution of the U.S. government between 1774 and 1791, including the Articles of Association (1774), the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (1778), the Treaty of Paris (1783), and Washington's First Inaugural Address ...