Following the departure of more conservative PCUS members into the PCA, the PCUS drafted a "Declaration of Faith," which paralleled the social concerns expressed in the UPCUSA's Confession of 1967. While it was approved by the General Assembly of 1976, it failed to receive a requisite supermajority of the presbyteries (largely due to opposition states where loyalist conservatives remained), and the 1977 General Assembly instead approved it for study purposes, without binding authority. That issue became moot upon the 1983 merger, as the Confession of 1967 was retained in the new denomination's "Book of Confessions."