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The decision established the requisite unanimous consent of all thirteen states for the formation of a Perpetual Union.

This was the final act of formation of the United States of America as a nation.

The approval of the much awaited law also removed any doubt about the resolve of the states to unite during the Revolutionary War.

In 1861, the fact that " the faith of all the then thirteen States was expressly plighted and engaged that Union should be perpetual " was considered of major importance by President Abraham Lincoln when declaring the secession of the southern states from the Union to be illegal.