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Old 05-10-2008, 04:02 PM
jeagas68 jeagas68 is offline
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Originally Posted by mrg
As far as I know, changes to the Articles of Confederation required unanimity, not consent of nine.
The passage of the Constitution was via a method not current the law of the land at the time.
I could be wrong.

It was not changed, they just allowed the Constitution to be passed into law... aka law of the land.

The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union were signed by a group of men who were never present in the Congress at the same time.
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