. The Civil War : the national view . s > o IX) X ^ T THE GROWTH OF THE SLAVE POWER 133 abolish it, and to institute a new government. Deemingthe Government of Great Britain to have become destructiveof these ends, they declared that the Colonies are absolvedfrom all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all politi-cal connection between them and the State of Great Britainis, and ought to be, totally dissolved. In pursuance of this Declaration of Independence, eachof the thirteen States proceeded to exercise its separate sover-eignty; adopted for itself a constitution, and appointedoffi
. The Civil War : the national view . s > o IX) X ^ T THE GROWTH OF THE SLAVE POWER 133 abolish it, and to institute a new government. Deemingthe Government of Great Britain to have become destructiveof these ends, they declared that the Colonies are absolvedfrom all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all politi-cal connection between them and the State of Great Britainis, and ought to be, totally dissolved. In pursuance of this Declaration of Independence, eachof the thirteen States proceeded to exercise its separate sover-eignty; adopted for itself a constitution, and appointedofficers for the administration of government in all its de-partments—Legislative, Executive and Judicial. For pur-poses of defense, they entered into a League known as theArticles of Confederation, whereby they agreed to entrustthe administration of their external relations to a commonagent, known as the Congress of the United States, expresslydeclaring, in the first Article that each State retains itssovereignty, freedom and independ
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