 | Charles Buxton Going - 1924 - 824 pages
...impressive chapter in the political history of the United States." Daniel Webster "doubted whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character." George F. Hoar has declared that it "belongs with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution,"... | |
 | Truman Bland Calvert - 1925 - 112 pages
...Ill, P. 259. tiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and LycurgusJ but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the 'Ordinance of 1787'." Also Chief Justice Chase remarks: "Never, probably, in the history of the world did a measure of legislation... | |
 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - 1916 - 498 pages
...lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." So said Daniel Webster. In his reply to Hayne, in substance he said that the ordinance of 1787 was... | |
 | 1925 - 636 pages
...lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted,... | |
 | Charles Burleigh Galbreath - 1925 - 780 pages
...lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus, but I doubt whether a single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787.' ' Another writer tells us in speaking of the university, "The ordinance providing for its existence... | |
 | Noble Winfield Pinkerton - 1927 - 176 pages
...lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...marked, and lasting character than the 'Ordinance of 17&7. '" Also, Chief Justice Chase remarked: "Never, probably, in the history of the world did a measure... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1927 - 710 pages
...states. Daniel Webster said in the United States Senate forty years after the passage of the Ordinance, "I doubt whether any single law of any lawgiver ancient or modern has produced effects of more distinct and lasting character." And Senator George F. Hoar, in his address on the centennial anniversary of... | |
 | Henry Towne Bannon - 1927 - 356 pages
...lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lusting character than the Ordinance of 1787." The Ordinance is composed of two parts; first, such... | |
 | Walter Wilson Jennings - 1928 - 580 pages
...enacted its most important legislation. Forty years later, Daniel Webster declared : "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. ' ' • Although the ordinance, among other things, provided for three judges to govern the territory... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1928 - 652 pages
...of law, and the sanctity of contracts to the new region. Daniel Webster once said in the Senate : " I doubt whether any single law of any lawgiver ancient or modern has produced effects of more distinct and lasting character." The Ordinance of 1787 belongs^witkJhe Declaration of Independence and the Constitution^"aiTone... | |
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I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. 
