November 13, 1777 ...Background Material from the file

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From the event date of the Confederation Plan's submission on July 12, 1776, Congress took 16 months to negotiate and finalize the text of the the nation's first constitution, what became the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION, adopted on ""November 13, 1777""; then two days later, its official printing was authenticated, for distribution to and review, for ratification by the 13 States, on November 15, 1777. Ratifications completed on March 01, 1781.

 

It is maintained herein that the effective date of closure by formal adoption became the actuating date of the birth of the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, on November 13th, 1777; whereas the formal date for its ratified enactment, March 01, 1781, was a formality, after the fact. The Continental Congress had been conducting itself already for long by the terms and conditions of the ARTICLES, from November 13, 1777.

 

November 13, 1777, Thursday evening, in the estimated range18:06:12/18:06:22:

The ARTICLES "Resolved" Adopted; CONFEDERATION Born.

BACKGROUND:

Congress Delegates' Letters:

Elbridge Gerry to James Warren, Thursday

Novr. 13. 1777, York in Pennsylvania, My dear sir ... We have this Evening finished the Confederacy, & it will be shortly sent to the several States for their Consideration.(2) JCC Note 2: This day Congress appointed a committee "to revise and arrange the articles of confederation agreed to, and to prepare a circular letter to the respective states to accompany the said articles.[unquote]

Cornelius Harnett to Thomas Burke Thursday