Articles of Confederation
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sembled can be consulted: nor shall any State grant commissions to any
ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after
a declaration of war by the United States in Congress assembled, and
then only against the kingdom or State and the subjects thereof, against
which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be
established by the United States in Congress assembled, unless such
State be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out
for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until
the United States in Congress assembled shall determine otherwise.
Art. VII. When land-forces are raised by any State for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be a