Making citizens of the states also citizens of the Union.
Explanation:
Through this passage, and specifically by establishing that all the free inhabitants of the states would enjoy the same rights in the other states in which they were not residents.
Thus, by guaranteeing a unity of rights throughout the territory of the Union, the Articles of Confederation sought to reaffirm the legal unity of all the states, in order to form not only a country with legal security for its inhabitants, but a nation with unified legal criteria at the government level.
