toward the magnificent Congressional Library building. James Buchanan, then a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, and who for a long time had been a citizen of Lan- caster, moved in the Senate to take up the resolution directing the Com- mittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of

operative until all thirteen states ratified the Articles—and that did not occur until 1 March 1781, long after Congress had left York. "Ah, but this nation was not the United States of America prior to the action of Congress in York in November 1777," say our neighbors. Using the �92 JOURNAL logic of the