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Article: Birth of a Protestant nation: Catholic Canadians, religious pluralism, and national unity in the early U.S. Republic.
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- Early American Literature
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- January 1, 2006
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Canada acceding to this confederation, and adjoining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.--(Articles of Confederation, art. XI)
Article XI of the Articles of Confederation--drafted in 1777 and ratified four years later--grants special status to the province of Quebec by providing for its immediate admission into the federation of American states. (1) That the Continental Congress would extend this open door offer to Quebec is perhaps not surprising, given that since its inception in 1774 ...