Kate Heffernan

Dear Canada, You’re Pre-Approved!

pile:

Articles of Confederation; Article 11:

“Canada acceding to this confederation, and adjoining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine States.”

I imagine this was the first “You’re pre-approved!” junk mail.

Early American history is my new passion.