This Assembly having taken into Consideration the Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union, between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New ITork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, transmitted by Congress to this State: and having had them repeatedly read, and having maturely weighed, and most seriously deliberated upon them as their importance to this and the other States, and to Posterity, deserves; and considering also the pressing necessity of completing the Union as a measure essential to the Preservation of the Independence and Safety of the said States:
" It is further voted and resolved, That this Assembly will and do hereby in behalf of the said State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in the most solemn manner, pledge the Faith of the said State, to hold and consider the Acts of the said Delegates, or any one of them, in so acceding to, and signing the said Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, as valid and binding upon the said State in all future time."
Sounds pretty perpetual to me.
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David Upton