The political push to increase cooperation among the then-loyal colonies began with the Albany Congress in 1754 and Benjamin Franklin's proposed intercolonial collaboration to help solve mutual local problems themselves ; the Articles of Confederation would bear some resemblance to it.

Congress then created three overlapping committees to draft the Declaration, a Model Treaty, and the Articles of Confederation.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

Congress began to move for ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1777:

First Brown President and Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation James Manning ( minister ) | James Manning.

The Northwest Ordinance, which was approved by the Congress of the Confederation in 1787, guaranteed " judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.

He was elected as the second president under the Articles of Confederation, and the President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783.

The German Confederation, a loose association of Central European states was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to organize the surviving states of the Holy Roman Empire.

The German Confederation was created by an act of the Congress of Vienna on 8 June 1815 as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, after being alluded to in Article 6 of the 1814 Treaty of Paris.

The Vienna Congress of 1815 confirmed Hamburg's independence and it became one of 39 sovereign states of the German Confederation ( 1815 – 66 ).

Madison was involved in the project mainly because he was a delegate to the lame duck Confederation Congress, which was meeting in New York.

Madison had been a delegate to the Confederation Congress, and wanted to be elected senator in the new government.

A vengeful Patrick Henry wanted to deny Madison a seat in the new congress, so he ensured that Madison remained in the lame duck Confederation Congress to prevent him as long as possible from campaigning.

While Hanson was in Congress, the Articles of Confederation were at last ratified by all the states.

In November 1781, Hanson became the first President of the Continental Congress to be elected for an annual term as specified in the Articles of Confederation, although Samuel Huntington and Thomas McKean had served in that office after the ratification of the Articles.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the United States had no executive branch ; the President of Congress was a mostly ceremonial position within the Confederation Congress, but the office did require Hanson to handle a good deal of correspondence and sign official documents.

* 1781 – The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.

Regulation of the militia was codified by the Second Continental Congress with the Articles of Confederation.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

In its original permanent dispositions, it gave the President of the Republic a large amount of power ; however, some of these dispositions, such as the power of dissolving the Lower Chamber of Congress and serving eight year terms with possibility of reelection, were modified or eliminated after 1990, when the country regained its democracy and the Congress was reestablished.

The section also provides that Congress shall assemble " at least once in every year " and sets a default date for the initial assembly, later modified by the Twentieth Amendment.

The 1807 Act was modified and supplemented by the fifteenth Congress.

Congress modified and extended the law in 1914 when British and other foreign creditors demanded immediate payments, in gold, of amounts which would ordinarily have been carried over and paid through exports of commodities.

In 2006, the Congress modified the Insurrection Act as part of the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill ( repealed as of 2008 ).

At the urging of William Findley, Congress modified this law on June 5, 1794, allowing excise trials to be held in local state courts.

Starting with the next session of Congress in 2011, Senator Murkowski reintroduced a slightly modified version of the Sealaska Bill and Representative Don Young introduced a companion bill ( S 730 and HR 1408 ).

Senator McCarran introduced the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950 that was passed by the U. S. Congress and which modified a great deal of law to restrict civil liberties in the name of security.

Reelection in Colombia was not allowed until 24 November 2005 when the Colombian Congress approved it by introducing the Electoral Guarantees Law ( Ley de Garantias Electorales ) which modified Article 152, of the Colombian Constitution of 1991.

It upheld Congress's plenary authority to legislate in Indian affairs that was derived from the Worcester decision's interpretation of the Indian Commerce Clause, but modified Worcester by giving the several states some jurisdiction over Indian affairs beyond what had been granted to them by Congress.

NFA categories have been modified by laws passed by Congress, rulings by the Department of the Treasury and regulations promulgated by the enforcement agency assigned to firearms known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives or BATFE.

Following the 2008 financial crisis and legislation passed by Congress, banks have modified many credit card agreements with customers sometimes increasing interest rates or reducing credit limits.

It is based on the rules of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft ( DMG ) as modified by the International Orientalist Congress 1936 in Rome.

Of the legislation introduced by Congress in response to President Bush's requests, sponsored by Sen. Daschle & Sen. Lott was based on the original White House proposal authorizing the use of force in Iraq, sponsored by Rep. Hastert & Rep. Gephardt and the substantially similar sponsored by Sen. Lieberman were modified proposals.

The court's finding of Constitutionality for the phrase, as well as the justifications noted above, have made it more difficult for US separationists to challenge other constitutionally questionable practices, such as tax exemption of churches, legislative and military chaplaincies, national holidays based on religious commemorations, the " Pray for Peace " postmark, and, in classrooms, required singing of the fourth stanza of America and the Star-Spangled Banner, both of which include religious phrases, and the required recitation at government events of the US Pledge of Allegiance, modified by an Act of Congress of June 14, 1954, to include the words " under God ", especially since each of these instances are regularly used by accommodationists to justify the other instances.

That First Congress provided that the Second Continental Congress would meet on May 10, 1775, to plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the Coercive Acts.

In subsequent years, the United States Congress transferred the authority over time zones to the U. S. Department of Transportation ( DOT ), modified ( several times ) the beginning date of daylight time, and renamed the three westernmost time zones.

Arrangements were made for the creation of a modified government, to be established in two phases-the first being the Bougainville Constituent Assembly and the second being the elections for the Bougainville People's Congress.

In an April 11 meeting, Lovett tactfully probed Vandenberg's thinking on a number of key issues, including the type of aid Congress would approve ; the form of a pact, particularly the willingness of the Senate to approve a slightly modified version of the Rio Treaty with regard to Europe ; the role of the United Nations in collective security arrangements ; and the legislative preparation needed for eventual conclusion of a long-term European security agreement.

The modified bill passed both houses of Congress on October 4, 1973, and the bill was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on October 18.

For example, the English translation of Kubijovyč's Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopædia uses a modified Library of Congress ( ALA-LC ) system as outlined above for Ukrainian and Russian names — with the exceptions for endings or doubled consonants applying variously to personal and geographic names.

On June 11, 1954, Flanders introduced a resolution charging McCarthy “ with unbecoming conduct and calling for his removal from his committee membership .” Upon the advice of Senators Cooper and Fulbright and legal assistance from the Committee for a More Effective Congress he modified his resolution to “ bring it in line with previous actions of censure .” The text of the resolution of censure condemns the senator for “ obstructing the constitutional processes of the Senate ” when he “ failed to cooperate with the Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and acting “ contrary to senatorial ethics ” when he described the Select Committee to Study Censure Charges and its chairman in slanderous terms.