(Federal Government should also possess the exclusive right of declaring on what terms the privileges of citizenship and naturalization should be extended to foreigners.)[1]
(XVI)
The assent of the Legislature of States shall be sufficient to invest future additional Powers in U. S. in C. ass. and shall bind the whole confederacy.[2]
[XVII]
The said States of N. H. &c guarrantee mutually each other and their Rights against all other Powers and against all Rebellion &c.
[XVIII]
(The next article provides for the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus—the trial by jury in all cases, criminal as well as civil—the freedom of the press and the prevention of religious tests as qualifications to offices of trust or emolument. …
There is also an authority to the national legislature, permanently to fix the seat of the general government, to secure to authors the exclusive right to their performances and discoveries, and to establish a Federal University.)[3]
[XIX]
The Articles of Confederation shall be inviolably observed unless altered as before directed, and the Union shall be perpetual.
- ↑ It is doubtful whether this paragraph should be included.
- ↑ Confirmed by Observations.
- ↑ These two paragraphs occur in a somewhat irrelevant way near the end of the pamphlet Observations. The provisions they embody were among those proposed by Pinckney on August 20. It is quite possible that they were not a part of the original plan.
