The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/I

I. Resolution of Congress[1]

1787, February 21.

Whereas there is provision in the Articles of Confederation & perpetual Union for making alterations therein by the Assent of a Congress of the United States and of the legislatures of the several States; And whereas experience hath evinced that there are defects in the present Confederation, as a mean to remedy which several


  1. Documentary History of the Constitution, IV, 78.