
The Articles of Confederation outlined the original state of this union in its earliest form, establishing this land as a nation, and as a people who would live without being ruled by a king. For when this document was ratified, it decreed that each state in this territory was sovereign, and therefore, the people who dwelt on this soil had the divine right to independence and freedom: those inalienable gifts which I bestowed upon mankind long before the concept of this nation was ever birthed.