"In the articles of Confederation, no provision is found on this important subject. Canada was to be admitted of right, on her joining in the measures of the United States; and the other colonies, by which were evidently meant the other British colonies, at the discretion of nine States. The eventual establishment of new states seems to have been overlooked by the compilers of that instrument." - James Madison (Federalist Paper No. 43)
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