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Articles of Confederation   /ˈɑrtəkəlz əv kənfˌɛdərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Article  n.  
1.
A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.
2.
A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.
3.
Subject; matter; concern; distinct. (Obs.) "A very great revolution that happened in this article of good breeding." "This last article will hardly be believed."
4.
A distinct part. "Upon each article of human duty." "Each article of time." "The articles which compose the blood."
5.
A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article. "They would fight not for articles of faith, but for articles of food."
6.
Precise point of time; moment. (Obs. or Archaic) "This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice."
7.
(Gram.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.
8.
(Zool.) One of the segments of an articulated appendage.
Articles of Confederation, the compact which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789.
Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a common criminal case.
Articles of war, rules and regulations, fixed by law, for the better government of the army.
In the article of death, at the moment of death; in the dying struggle.
Lords of the articles (Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws.
The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.


Confederation  n.  
1.
The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states. "The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves." "This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England."
2.
The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.
Articles of confederation. See under Article.





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"Articles of confederation" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the seven year's war. The articles of confederation were sent to the States in 1778, but the last of the thirteen States, Maryland, did not adopt them until March, 1781. Congress under he confederacy dealt with the States and did not have the confidence or the ...
— Five Sermons • H.B. Whipple
... show that when the committee reported to that body the original articles of confederation, the very first article which became the subject of discussion was that respecting equality of suffrage. Article ...
— An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony • Anonymous
... one in the Constitution, in relation to the rights and immunities of citizens of one State in the other States, was contained in the articles of Confederation. But there is a difference of language, which is worthy of note. The provision in the Articles of Confederation was "that the free inhabitants of each of the States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice, excepted, should be entitled to all the privileges ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various
... days more than a hundred years since the adoption of the first written constitution of the United States—the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. The new Republic was then beset with danger on every hand. It had not conquered a place in the family of nations. The decisive battle of the war for independence, whose centennial anniversary will soon be gratefully celebrated at Yorktown, had not yet been fought. The colonists ...
— Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. VIII.: James A. Garfield • James D. Richardson
... passed before the Articles of Confederation were formally adopted by the states, by which time it had become clear that they must totally fail of their purpose, for each state decided for itself whether to respond to the demands of congress. The poison of nullification ...
— Thomas Jefferson • Edward S. Ellis et. al.
... were in full accord with the declaration opposing slavery, and they sought to give it supremacy by their success in the conflict. Slavery, which barred the entrance to the army of the colored man at the South, had been denounced by the colonist before the adoption of the articles of confederation, and was maintained solely by local regulations. As early as 1774, all the colonies had agreed to, and their representatives to the congress had signed, the articles of the Continental Association, by which it was agreed, "that we will neither import nor purchase any slave ...
— The Black Phalanx - African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the - War of 1812, and the Civil War • Joseph T. Wilson


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