Article III bound the States in a firm league of friendship “for their common defense, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare”; the phrases were to reappear in the preamble to the Constitution of 1787. Article IV guaranteed to the inhabitants of each State “all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States,” a guarantee carried over to Article IV, Section 2. The extradition of fugitives from one State to another, the rule of “full faith and credit” among the States, the immunity of Congressmen, and the flat prohibition upon the granting of titles of nobility all stem from the Articles. It often is forgotten, but the States laid upon themselves in the Articles of Confederation many of the prohibitions they were to accept a few years later in the Constitution: No States were to enter into any compact without the consent of Congress; no States were to keep troops or ships of war in time of peace without the consent of Congress “unless such State be actually invaded by enemies, or ... the danger is so imminent as not to admit of delay,” a provision echoed to this day, almost exactly, in Article I, Section 10. The powers vested in the Congress under the Articles of Confederation also have a familiar ring--to coin money, fix standards of weights and measures, regulate trade, establish post offices, borrow money, build and equip a navy, and appropriate funds “for defraying the public expenses.” But the Articles of Confederation, for all the thoughtful provisions they provided as progenitors of the Constitution, had serious and admitted defects as well. If there was to be something more than a “firm league of friendship” among sovereign States, a government had to be created capable of acting upon individuals as such. The most devoted friend of “States’ rights” willingly concedes that the “more perfect Union” provided for in the Constitution of 1787 created a nation, even if the Constitution described it only as a “Union,” or as “the land.” Obviously, the supremacy clause in Article VI was something new, not in degree, but in kind: “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”