We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do repeal and abolish the Constitution for the United States of America, and we do ordain and establish these Articles of Confederation.
Each individual person has the following rights:
- Freedom of Religion
- Freedom of Thought
- Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of Association
- Freedom of Property
- Freedom of Castle
- Freedom of Trade
- Freedom of the Press
- Freedom of the Media
- Freedom of Garden
The Stile of this Confederacy shall be
"The United States of America".
Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, independence, and right to secede, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.
The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.
For the most convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislatures of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead for the remainder of the year.
No State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind.
Each State shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States, and while they act as members of the committee of the States.
In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote, and to take effect, a measure must achieve consensus, i.e., unanimous agreement of all of the States.
The Former Federal Government of the United States of America is divided and distributed among the States as follows:
- All assets and liabilities located within a State belong to that State. For example, each state controls and is responsible for all federal property (land, buildings, furniture, papers, et cetera) within that state and all federal employees working within that state. Each state is responsible for all recipients of federal government programs, such as Social Security, who reside within that state.
- All assets and liabilities located closest to a particular state belong to that State. For example, the portion of the Pacific Ocean managed by the Pre-Amendment Federal Government is distributed to California, Oregon, and Washington, divided according to where they border upon the coast.
- All indivisible assets and liabilities shared among a number of States less than ten belong jointly to those particular states. For example, a Pre-Amendment Federal Government bridge between two states is jointly owned by those two states.
- All other assets and liabilities are distributed pro rata among the States according to their respective populations at the most recent census.
Any alteration to these Articles of Confederation must be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.