Congress of the Confederation

United States in Congress Assembled
United States in Congress Assembled
	Great Seal of the United States (1782)
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	3 years in 6-year period
History
Established	March 1, 1781
Disbanded	March 3, 1789
Preceded by	Second Continental Congress
Succeeded by	United States Congress
Leadership
President of Congress	Samuel Huntington (first); Cyrus Griffin (last)
Secretary	Charles Thomson
Structure
Seats	Variable, ~50
Committees	Committee of the States
Committees	Committee of the Whole
Length of term	1 year
Salary	None
Elections
Voting system	Legislature of the various states
Last election	1788
Meeting place
	Pennsylvania State House; (present-day Independence Hall),; Philadelphia (first); City Hall (present-day Federal Hall); New York City (last)
Constitution
	Articles of Confederation
Footnotes
	Though there were about 50 members of the Congress at any given time, each state delegation voted en bloc, with each state having a single vote.

The Congress of the Confederation, or the Confederation Congress, formally referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled, was the governing body of the United States from March 1, 1781, until March 3, 1789, during the Confederation period. A unicameral body with legislative and executive function, it was composed of delegates appointed by the legislatures of the several states. Each state delegation had one vote. The Congress was created by the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union upon its ratification in 1781, formally replacing the Second Continental Congress.

The Congress continued to refer itself as the "Continental Congress" throughout its eight-year history, although modern historians separate it from the two earlier congresses, which operated under slightly different rules and procedures until the later part of American Revolutionary War.^[1] The membership of the Second Continental Congress automatically carried over to the Congress of the Confederation, and had the same secretary as the Second Continental Congress, Charles Thomson.

The Congress of the Confederation was succeeded by the Congress of the United States as provided for in the new Constitution of the United States, drafted on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, ratified by each of the states, and adopted by the Congress in 1788.^[2]

^ "Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789", Edited by Worthington C. Ford et al. 34 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904–37.
^ "Confederation Congress". Ohio Historical Society. Archived from the original on April 25, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2010.

[1] "Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789", Edited by Worthington C. Ford et al. 34 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904–37.

[Confederation_Congress,_Ohio_Historical_Society-2] "Confederation Congress". Ohio Historical Society. Archived from the original on April 25, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2010.

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