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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION]. 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 . [York, Pa.? : Printed by Hall and Sellers?, Nov. 14, 1777].
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION]. 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 . [York, Pa.? : Printed by Hall and Sellers?, Nov. 14, 1777]. 6 pp. 11 3/8 x 7in. Removed from a volume (even, light age-toning). "THE STILE OF THIS CONFEDERACY SHALL BE 'THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA': THE FINAL DRAFT PRINTING OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. The Articles of Confederation, a unicameral constitution providing for a loose federation of the states, was drafted and approved by the delegates meeting in York-Town (now Lancaster), on November 15, 1777. It required unanimous ratification by the 13 states, therefore it only went into effect in March 1781 after the last state, Maryland, ratified. Its inception marked the end of the Continental Congress; it would remain in effect, though inadequate in many ways, for seven years, until superceded by the Constitution of 1788. The present constitutes "the final draft printing of the Articles, executed for the use of the Continental Congress. This version, with 'sundry small amendments in the diction, without altering the sense' was agreed to on Nov. 15, 1777. The first edition subsequent to approval (Evans 15619) was printed at Lancaster by Francis Bailey shortly after." VERY RARE. The present printing was tentatively attributed by Evans to the Lancaster press of John Dunlap (who had issued the first broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence the previous year). Evans 15620; Sabin 2142; see Streeter sale, II,487 (a Boston edition: "as this is one of the great documents in our history, it would seem appropriate that one of the 1777 editions should be present in a general Americana collection").