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grants a smaller power required for amendment than for a grant the power of amendment confined to grants of the Constitution limitations on the power of amendment. In July, 1776, the Congress of the thirteen united colonies declared that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. The denial of this asserted right and the attempted coercion made it manifest that a bond of union was necessary for the common defense. In November of the next year, 1777, articles of confederation and perpetual union were entered into by the thirteen states under the style of The United States of America. The government instituted was to be administered by a congress of delegates from the several states, and each state to have an equal voice in legislation. The government so formed was to act through and by the states, and, having no power to enforce its requisition upon the states, embarrassment was early realized in its efforts to provide for the exigenci