18 Dec
2003
18 Dec
'03
8:17 a.m.
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. -- ICQ UIN: 55350095