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Excerpt from The Magazine of History With Notes and Queries, Vol. 19: July December, 1914 For example, they provided that freemen of any State should be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of freemen of any other State, a provision that prevented unjust local discrimination against strangers from other States. Then, there was another provision which declared that the records, acts and judicial decisions of any State should be valid 1n all the States, thus nationalizing the records, acts and judi cial decisions of any one. As has been remarked, the Articles were of value in that they served as a common legislative document to all the States and as a suggestion for a future, more effective Constitution. But as a real Constitution, the Articles were practically worthless. They provided neither for a Supreme Court to interpret the laws, nor for an Executive to enforce them; and the provision for a Congress of only one House where each State had but a single vote without regard to its population and influence was also a weakness in their efficiency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.