 | 1913 - 1174 pages
...It similar to that of the Northwest Territory, to begin its existence July 4, 1800 (RS 1843, p. 28). The ordinance of 1787, providing for the government of the Northwest Territory, provided that the legislative department "shall have authority to make laws, in all cases for the good... | |
 | 1895 - 866 pages
...rights, sovereignty and jurisdiction over this subject as the original States, and that the language in the ordinance of 1787, providing for the Government of the Northwest Territory, that all navigable rivers should remain forever public highways, •did not confer upon the Federal... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 648 pages
...it was expressly stipulated that the rights of the inhabitants in this regard should be respected. The ordinance of 1787, providing for the government of the Northwest Territory, fulfilled JUSTICES WHITE, SHIBAU and MoKeNNA, concurring. this promise on behalf of the Confederation.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 196 pages
...it was expressly stipulated that the rights of the inhabitants in this regard should be respected. The ordinance of 1787, providing for the government of the Northwest Territory, fulfilled this promise on behalf of the Confederation. Without undertaking to reproduce the text of... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - 1913 - 852 pages
...for it similar to that of the Northwest Territory to begin its existence July 4, 1800. BS 1843 p. 28. The ordinance of 1787, providing for the government of the Northwest Territory, provided that the legislative department "shall have authority to make laws, in all cases for the good... | |
 | Jacques Wardlaw Redway - 1905 - 528 pages
...to the general government to be made later into new states. The Congress of the Confederation passed the Ordinance of 1787 providing for the government of the Northwest Territory and forbidding slavery within its area. The First Congress of the United States confirmed this ordinance.... | |
 | 1919 - 936 pages
...it was expressly stipulated that the rights of the inhabitants in this regard should be respected. The ordinance of 1787, providing for the government of the Northwest Territory, fulfilled this promise in behalf of the Confederation. Without undertaking to reproduce the text of... | |
 | 1919 - 918 pages
...was expressly stipulated that the rights of the inhabitants in this regard •should be respected. The ordinance of 1787, providing for the government of the Northwest Territory, fulfilled this promise in behalf of the Confederation. Without undertaking to reproduce the text of... | |
 | Jacques Wardlaw Redway - 1910 - 538 pages
...to the general government to be made later into new states. The Congress of the Confederation passed the Ordinance of 1787 providing for the government of the Northwest Territory and forbidding slavery within its area. The First Congress of the United States confirmed this ordinance.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1912 - 180 pages
...of "popular sovereignty" and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. These same men passed the Ordinance of '87. The Ordinance of 1787 providing for the government of the Northwest Territory, which comprised the present states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan, was passed... | |
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Territory, fulfilled this promise in behalf of the Confederation. Without undertaking to reproduce the text of the ordinance, it suffices to say that it contained a bill of rights, a promise of ultimate statehood, and it provided (italics mine) that '... 
