 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 952 pages
...1780, Congress resolved that the lands which may be ceded to the United States by any particular state shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the...members of the federal union, and have the same rights to sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other states. The fundamental proposition assented... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 470 pages
...erection of the ceded lands into republican states, to be admitted to membership in the Federal Union with the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other states. The Massachusetts cession of 1785 and the Connecticut cession of 1786 were followed in 1787 by the... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - United States - 1995 - 140 pages
...lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United Slates . . . [shall be] formed into different republican states which shall become members of the...sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other slates. In 1787 the Confederation Congress confronted the problem of providing a government for territory... | |
 | Willis F. Dunbar, George S. May - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 788 pages
...wesrern lands, if ceded to the central government, would be "formed into separare republican stares, which shall become members of the federal union, and have the same righss and sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other stares." This was an ingenious plan... | |
 | Eric Hinderaker - History - 1999 - 324 pages
...could formulate a coherent western policy. These lands would then, in the words of an early resolution, "be disposed of for the common benefit of the United...sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." This radical conception of the new nation - liberal in its offer to share power with states whose existence... | |
 | Leonard W. Levy - Law - 462 pages
...other states, and in October 1780, Congress yielded to Maryland by resolving that ceded lands should be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be formed into "republican states, which shall become members of the federal union" on equal terms with... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - Religion - 1998 - 384 pages
...lands were ceded, as recommended by the resolution above mentioned, they should be disposed of. for die common benefit of the United States, and be settled...and formed into distinct republican States, which should become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty and freedom and... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...Those lands would be organized, settled, and admitted as "distinct republican States," which "shall have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." 14 Virginia's cession of its western lands after the Revolution recited the congressional language... | |
 | Wallace Stegner - Fiction - 1998 - 386 pages
...relinquished to the United States, by any particular states, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress . . . shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the...which shall become members of the Federal Union, and shall have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other states." 1 hree... | |
 | Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher - History - 2000 - 634 pages
...states) Gulf of Mexico Southwest Territory (other state cessions) WESTERN LAND CLAIMS OF THE STATES the United States, and be settled and formed into...sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States." New York was the first state to give up its western claims, followed by an indication from Virginia... | |
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September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence... 
