...States, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original States, at as early...and the people and States in the said territory, and for ever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit : Ant. 1. No person, demeaning himself...

...it would have been perfectly absurd to declare these temporary arrangements " a compact between the original States ' and the people and States in the said territory, and forever unal' terable, unless by common consent." Why, they have been altered time and again by Congress, without...

...it would have been perfectly absurd to declare these temporary arrangements " a compact between the original States ' and the people and States in the said territory, and forever unal' terable, unless by common consent." Why, they have been altered time and again by Congress, without...

...prescribed to the people inhabiting the western territory certain conditions which were declared to be " articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the said territory" which should " for ever remain unalterable, unless by common consent." In one of these articles it...

...with the general interest: SEC. 14. It is hereby ordained and declared, by the author- p«7.i4j ity aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered...consent, to wit: ARTICLE I No person, demeaning himself hi a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship, or religious...

...the course of the common law." This article follows a declaration in the ordinance to this effect: " It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority...forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent." The principles declared in these articles, and they are of a similar character to principles declared...

...formed in said territory," proceeded, not to enact an ordinary statute, but to " ordain and declare that the following articles shall be considered as...articles of COMPACT between the original states and the states and people of said territory, and forever remain unalterable, except by common consent."...

...faith" in their relations with the Indians. This significant national legislation provides in part: It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority...remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: Art. 3d. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of...

...materias, las que se declaraban, a diferencia de las relativas a la organización política ya descrita, "as articles of compact between the original States,...forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent..." " El 7 de agosto de 1789, el nuevo Congreso enmendó la Ordenanza del Noroeste para conciliar sus disposiciones...

...States, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the Federal councils on an equal footing with the original States, at as early...periods as may be consistent with the general interest: Sec. 14. It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles...