ROGER SHERMAN, SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, OLIVER WOLCOTT. _New York._ WILLIAM FLOYD, PHILIP LIVINGSTON, FRANCIS LEWIS, LEWIS MORRIS. _New Jersey._ RICHARD STOCKTON, JOHN WITHERSPOON, FRANCIS HOPKINSON, JOHN HART, ABRAHAM CLARK. _Pennsylvania._ ROBERT MORRIS, BENJAMIN RUSH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, JOHN MORTON, GEORGE CLYMER, JAMES SMITH, GEORGE TAYLOR, JAMES WILSON, GEORGE ROSS. _Massachusetts Bay._ SAMUEL ADAMS, JOHN ADAMS, ROBERT TREAT PAINE, ELBRIDGE GERRY. _Delaware._ CÆSAR RODNEY, GEORGE REED, THOMAS M’KEAN. _Maryland._ SAMUEL CHASE, WILLIAM PACA, THOMAS STONE, CHARLES CARROLL, of Carrollton. _Virginia._ GEORGE WYTHE, RICHARD HENRY LEE, THOMAS JEFFERSON, BENJAMIN HARRISON, THOMAS NELSON, JUN., FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE, CARTER BRAXTON. _North Carolina._ WILLIAM HOOPER, JOSEPH HEWES, JOHN PENN. _South Carolina._ EDWARD RUTLEDGE, THOMAS HEYWOOD, JUN., THOMAS LYNCH, JUN., ARTHUR MIDDLETON. _Georgia._ BUTTON GWINNETT, LYMAN HALL, GEORGE WALTON. CHAPTER VII. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION BETWEEN THE STATES. _To all whom these Presents shall come, We, the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our names, send greeting_—Whereas, the Delegates of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, did, on the 15th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1777, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America, agree to certain Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, in the words following, viz.: _Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia._ ARTICLE 1. The style of this Confederacy shall be “The United States of America.” ART. 2. Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.