The Congress of the Confederation, or the Confederation Congress, formally referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled, was the governing body...

later as president of the Congress of the Confederation, was the presiding officer of the Continental Congress, the convention of delegates that assembled...

procedurally once the Articles of Confederation went into effect, as ratification did little more than constitutionalize what the Continental Congress had been...

the Second Continental Congress of 1775–1781. It also refers to the Congress of the Confederation of 1781–1789, which covers the period following the...

Second Congresses of 1774–1781 and at the time, also described the Congress of the Confederation of 1781–1789. The Confederation Congress operated as the first...

The Confederation period was the era of the United States' history in the 1780s after the American Revolution and prior to the ratification of the United...

when congress became what is now often called the Confederation Congress. During this period, it successfully managed the war effort, drafted the Articles...

unlimited number of times. The Congress was created by the U.S. Constitution and first met in 1789, replacing the Congress of the Confederation in its legislative...

the Declaration of Independence and many critical articles establishing the United States of America. The Congress of the Confederation (1781–1789) immediately...

the Congress of the Confederation (1781–1789), legislature of the United States under the Articles of Confederation. The Confederate States Congress of...

establishment of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, by decree given in Lima on October 28, 1836. A congress known today as the Congress of Tacna (Spanish:...

slavery and a Bill of Rights in the original document. The drafted Constitution was submitted to the Congress of the Confederation in September 1787;...

The seal of the president of the United States is used to mark correspondence from the president of the United States to the U.S. Congress, and is also...

at the climactic Siege of Yorktown. After the Revolutionary War, Hamilton served as a delegate from New York to the Congress of the Confederation in Philadelphia...

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...

The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall...

was the final President of the Congress of the Confederation and first United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District...

secretary of the Congress of the Confederation. Thomson derived the phrase Novus ordo seclorum from a poem by the Roman poet Virgil. He wrote that the phrase...

at War" or "Secretary of War", had been appointed to serve the Congress of the Confederation under the Articles of Confederation between 1781 and 1789...

117; 8.683 The Confederated States of the Rhine, simply known as the Confederation of the Rhine or Rhine Confederation, was a confederation of German client...

courts have the powers that had been granted to the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture under the Congress of the Articles of Confederation: it was held...

Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783 was a proclamation by the Congress of the Confederation dated September 22, 1783 prohibiting the extinguishment...

Seal; its inclusion on the seal was suggested by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere and approved in an act of the Congress of the Confederation in 1782. While its...

where the Second Continental Congress or Congress of the Confederation met. The United States did not have a permanent capital under the Articles of Confederation...

known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. It created the Northwest...

the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The...

of the 107th Congress. It can be found in volume 116 of the U.S. Statutes at Large, starting at page 1666. September 22, 1783: Confederation Congress Proclamation...

The Perpetual Union is a feature of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, which established the United States of America as a political entity...

States Congress of the Confederation, and is where Ratification Day, the formal end of the American Revolutionary War, occurred. The capitol has the distinction...

submitted to the Congress of the Confederation for its endorsement. After eight days of debate, the opposing sides came to the first of many compromises...