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The rejoinder of Benjamin Franklin to a lady who questioned him on his exit from the convention of the Continental Congress charged with modifying the Articles of Confederation
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Certainly in the time that Jhordel had held command of the Confederation she had proven
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the challenge; and what he had seen of the Confederation as he had come in from Earth had been
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The fare on the Confederation, however, was worthy of anything the commercial liners had
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he had boarded the Confederation he found himself sitting on the bridge, preparing himself for the
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Regardless of how much greater it became, the crew of the Confederation would feel no change
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men and women who occupy the center seats of ships like the Confederation aren’t ordinary,
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The Confederation had dropped shift several hours ago, and was now moving at sublight
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would be for a ship as large as the Confederation, I’ve no idea
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its very nature the Confederation is difficult to conceal
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Confederation would be hard put to duplicate that feat
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Only moments after the Confederation had exited hyperspace, the half-dozen torpedoes
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interception of the Confederation, while others would lay in wait about the planet in case the
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net about the Confederation
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ships had launched several salvoes of torpedoes at the Confederation before calling for the shift
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nine Unity ships were bearing down upon them, and the next the Confederation was falling into
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the Confederation rained its terror as it swept into orbit, grazing through the upper layers of the
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her since first setting foot on the Confederation
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awaited the moment when the Confederation could activate its engines once more and make a dash
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But as the Confederation narrowed the gap between it and the transit
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and studied the cube image rotating before him: it showed the position of the Confederation, the
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fraction of the distance between the Confederation and the Unity torpedoes
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He held his breath as the six torpedoes leapt the gap between the Confederation and the
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Something struck the Confederation with such force that she was sent careening into the
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At the first sign of trouble the Confederation could respond
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The Confederation had halted amidst this cloud, drifting with it, giving the tech
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Straight-line flight, he told himself; it meant the Confederation was running, still accelerating
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And as the Confederation continued to sail onward after its drop, with no
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And we’re screwed if they can, he thought; for the Confederation was surely dead if that
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The Confederation would never jump again
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to merge with the solitary red marker that was the Confederation
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The Articles of Confederation were conceived as a federation of ―United‖ States with each state retaining its own sovereignty and independence apart from assigned powers (otherwise) delegated to the federal government
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When that finally happened, David set about finishing Saul’s work of reforming a loosely associated tribal confederation into a closely-knit kingly nation
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The first took place within a loose confederation of tribes or peoples
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The bigger presupposition is to motivate the network formation or confederation of Bank3Sectors
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It seemed that it was a very loose confederation of fully independent principalities that gave little more than a nod of deference to whichever of them was elected emperor
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the Constitution were federalists in the literal sense of supporting a confederation of states
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and applied, was far closer to the Articles of Confederation than to the “living document” of the modern Supreme Court
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Confederation of the Rhine, 203
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” It more than likely first appeared during the tribal confederation period known in the Bible as “Judges
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during the tribal confederation period known in the Bible as “Judges
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We stopped in front of the Confederation Center
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of the Confederation Center opened to the paved square we
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She brought a young woman with her and introduced her as Georgie Thompson of the Canadian Confederation Party
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Melissa had agreed to work with the Canadian version of the Constitution Party, a group called the Confederation Party
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In Canada the Confederation Party elected a full slate
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England played a leadership role in establishing the Confederation of European Nations
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Decisions were about to be made as Melissa felt the need to rejoin her career with the Confederation Party
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Melissa got pregnant almost right away and as Ed began to recover from his injuries she began to look ahead to her career with the Confederation Party in Montreal
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He had been with the Confederation Party since it's first beginnings
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I started in the Montreal office with the first beginnings of the Confederation Party and volunteered for enough jobs that soon I found myself here
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European confederation of nations found in the Bible
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The Holy Roman Empire was in fact, not Roman, but a confederation of German
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Organized on the internet, a call went out to all the followers of the Boblovian way of life, as stated on one of the major 222 websites, to come together to negotiate a confederation of independent sovereign individuals
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Other booths were set up to provide advice on things such as, the union of marriage between two individual sovereign states, common possession of property within the family and as part of a greater confederation of independent individuals among other things
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That’s not to say no control was bad, in fact, the way the 222 Confederation organically evolved was inspiring
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You called for the making of a confederation of other independent states, is that right?
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It becomes a personal responsibility to set the course for ourselves, both individually, and as a confederation of independent entities
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The de facto leader of the 222 Revolution, Emperor of Boblovia, Founding Father of the Confederation of Independent Individual Republics, among many other labels given him
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He reappeared, only weeks ago, at a large 222 Jamboree staged in Arkansas, one of many such gatherings of the Confederation held last month worldwide
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Windowmaker encourages a coming together of these individuals into a loose knit organization called the Confederation
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The Confederation is still without any formal leadership and will probably be that way for a long while, so there aren’t any revolutionary leaders for them to go after either
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“Who sent you? Was it my friends in the 222 Confederation?”
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I tried to make my life appear so boring and routine that they would let their guard drop, even though; on occasion, I would allow myself to be paraded out on the front lawn for some picture op with either some young wannabe journalist or some pilgrim of the Confederation looking for another piece to the puzzle
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The Nation of Heaven isn’t that much different than the Confederation
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That’s why we see the Boblovian Confederation spread across the globe
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Then she brought sunlight into it, and progressed all the way to the Calabren djain’s capture and ravishing of the Twilen Simargh, which caused the earth to roll northward and give birth to the Southern Confederation, the countries of which were growing more irksome
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“We are the Confederation of Angry Drug Dealers, or CADD
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“The size and configuration of those star cruisers is a Confederation military specification,” she murmured
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“Bloody Gods! That’s more than illegal, Vedara---that would be a pass-through judgment of treason on most of the planets in the Confederation! That’s just too dangerous---how did you pull it off?”
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As for the how of it, I have connections, greased by Galactic Standard ingots and by the transfer of difficult-to-acquire merchandise---and,” she winked, “I could describe in intimate detail the sexual preferences of a certain High Minister of the Confederation
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To hear the Captain tell it, once upon a time his crew had all been more or less upstanding members of the Galactic Confederation, but each had suffered their own series of mishaps that resulted in the stripping of their privileges of citizenry, and they were thus presented with the choice of prosperous piracy or shunned destitution
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Vedara cringed at the hopeless cliché, but Moraine had unfastened several buttons of her blouse and when she leaned forward she displayed cleavage that left so little to the imagination that Vedara suspected her friend could begin reciting the dry Articles of the Confederation and still command the cook’s rapt attention
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“Ah, but Captain, you know that also is not entirely true, don’t you? It is true that it’s just an engine, yes, but the Confederation, in their logistical wisdom, builds such pieces in cassette form
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The view was spectacular from where they sat, atop the very prestigious Observation Spire at Confederation Prime HQ on Bellabarabba
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The Confederation had been very generous with its reward to them for bringing in the triple bounty of captured pirates, illicit Mil-Spec star cruisers, and especially that next-generation Class Five engine
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I also talked the Confederation into granting me use of the SC1 star cruiser, by the way
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recruitment of the Iroquois Confederation, an
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in forming a Confederation of Southern States
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president for the Confederation of Southern States
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Within hours the entire coastline of the Western Confederation, formerly the west coast of the United States of America was on high alert
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Their rule of iron had controlled the Western Confederation for the last eight years unchallenged, but as of late cracks had been showing, as a result of their heavy handed tactics and many corruption scandals
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Your first mistake is that you should have called us and given up your bribe money, as a good patriot to the confederation would have
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A story was started that the townspeople were part of an organized rebellion against the new confederation and they were all taken out and shot as traitors
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Reports are coming in throughout the Confederation
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All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation
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The South American Championship (Copa América since 1975) is organized by the South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL
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I was made to be a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier
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[2] This ordinance of the Congress of the confederation, which became the basis of all the Territorial governments, was sanctioned by the Congress of the Union at its first session, with certain provisions added to it in order to give it full effect under the constitution
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Another point, in which fault had been charged upon his conduct with respect to America, was his having stated that the system would not be given up while the smallest link of the confederation against Great Britain existed
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Would it have had that power, if this right had not been expressly delegated? I know that, under the old Articles of Confederation, Congress did undertake to legislate as to property; but it was always questionable whether they had a right to do so—and this was not the only point on which Congress did exercise powers which were brought into question
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Montgomery, Varnum, Helms, and Bacon, on the ground that the late General Hamilton had no claim on the Government under the resolutions of the old Congress; because he was, on the 25th of November, 1782, a delegate in Congress, and, by the 6th article of the Confederation, incapable of holding, at the same time, a military commission
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The power to make rules for the regulation and government of the land and naval forces, I have shown to be strictly incidental to the power to raise armies, and provide and maintain navies; but, according to this rule of construction, all incidental powers are excluded except the few which are enumerated, which would exclude from all claim to constitutionality, nearly one-half of your laws, and, what is still more to be deprecated, would render your constitution equally imbecile with the old articles of confederation
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At the time, and antecedently to the establishment of the present constitution, the existing State Governments were in possession of all the powers of sovereignty, subject only to feeble and inefficient articles of confederation, without the means of executing their own will, and resting for its execution solely on requisitions upon the respective States, which might either comply or refuse to comply with such requisitions at their discretion
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A non-compliance was almost invariably the result of State deliberations, and hence the feebleness of the old Confederation
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But the Convention, with a full knowledge of the defects of the old Confederation, and deeply impressed with the necessity of an efficient national Government, determined to exclude all doubt by granting to the new Government, in express and unequivocal language, ample authority to use all means necessary and proper for the attainment of the ends for which it was instituted
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And the construction given to the grant of powers in the Articles of Confederation by the Congress of 1781, is strong evidence of our right to establish a bank under a grant of powers much more ample, and with money concerns vastly more extensive and complicated
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To suffer the Bank of the United States to dissolve, and to have recourse to State banks, will be so far going back to the condition of the United States under the articles of Confederation, when our Union was but a rope of sand
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Pope) said, that the great characteristic difference between the present Government and that which existed under the old articles of confederation, is, that the present Government has within itself the means of executing its own measures, without relying upon the State governments; whereas the old Congress had to rely upon the States for the execution of the measures which it had previously devised and adopted
