| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - If it had been in the contemplation of the parties, that the States had merged themselves into a single nation, something like the following formula would naturally have suggested itself as proper: His Britannic Majesty acknowledges that New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, &c., former colonies of Great Britain and now united together as one people, are a free, sovereign and independent State, &c.
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