 | 1912 - 446 pages
...that to require it without compensation was arbitrary and unreasonable. Again, the court held that the Ordinance of 1787 providing for the government of the Northwest Territory, enacted, of course, by Congress before Ohio was admitted as a state into the Union, and further providing... | |
 | 1919 - 972 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... | |
 | United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - 1953 - 866 pages
...newly opened Northwest Territory to educational purposes. As a part of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 the Congress made the clear declaration of policy...religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1948 - 1872 pages
...initiated a policy of giving aid to the Territories and later to the States for the support of education. In the ordinance of 1787 providing for the Government of the Northwest Territory, the Congress of the Confederation made the clear declaration of policy that— religion, morality, and kimwlcdue... | |
 | Charles Kettleborough - 1916 - 734 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... | |
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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 '... 
