| Illinois - 1845 - 766 pages
...seat in Congress, with a right or debating, but not of voting during this temporary government. I3. And for extending the fundamental principles of civil...religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republies, their laws, and constitution, are erected : to fix and establish those principles as the... | |
| James Handasyd Perkins - 1846 - 638 pages
...have a seat in Congress, with a right of debating but not of voting during this temporary government. And, for extending the fundamental principles of civil...of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory : to provide also for the establishment of... | |
| Vermont. General Assembly. Senate - 1846 - 610 pages
...in respect to slavery, the preamble to the articles of compact declared, that they were ordained " for extending the fundamental principles of civil...religious liberty which form the basis whereon these republies, their laws and constitution B, are erected." If it had been asserted in the Convention that... | |
| Michigan. Legislature - 1847 - 160 pages
...the whole transaction — the deeds of cession, and of the whole system, were for the purpose of " extending the fundamental principles of civil and...of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment .of... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - 1847 - 724 pages
...north west of the river Ohio. This ordinance contains the following emphatic and solemn declaration : " And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereupon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected ; to fix and establish, those principles... | |
| Oliver Cromwell Gardiner - 1848 - 356 pages
...articles, of which the sixth and last prohibited slavery, were expressly declared to be adopted, " for extending the fundamental principles of civil...of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory ; to provide also for the establishment of... | |
| William Wilson - 1848 - 48 pages
...basis whereon theso republics, their laws and constitutions, are erected; of fixing and establishing those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions,...ever hereafter shall be formed In said territory, etc. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory,** etc.— ORDINANCE... | |
| John Arthur Roebuck - 1849 - 276 pages
...a seat in Congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting, during this temporary government. And for extending the fundamental principles of civil...governments which for ever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory : to provide, also, for the establishment of states and permanent government therein,... | |
| John Arthur Roebuck - 1849 - 282 pages
...during this temporary government. And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religions liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics,...governments which for ever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory : to provide, also, for the establishment of states and permanent government therein,... | |
| 1841 - 428 pages
...last of which abolished sluvery in the northwestern territory. It declares, among other things, that, ''for extending the fundamental principles of civil...and constitutions are erected, to fix and establish these principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall... | |
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