| Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1839 - 910 pages
...claim, under the ordinance of 1787, to the territory in dispute. That ordinance established certain articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, which were to remain forever unalterable... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 384 pages
...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...general interest : It is hereby ordained and declared, _by the authority aforesaid, That the following Articles shall be considered as articles of compact,... | |
| Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1840 - 632 pages
...a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early a period as may be consistent with the general interest." "It is hereby ordained/' &c. Now, any construction of the clause quoted in the Vermont resolutions, that would prevent the development... | |
| Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1840 - 618 pages
...a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early a period as may be consistent with the general interest." "It is hereby ordained," &c. Now, any construction of the clause quoted in the Vermont resolutions, that would prevent the development... | |
| William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...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: The governor, judges, legislative council, secretary, and such other officers as Congress shall appoint... | |
| John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...constitution and state government, so formed, is republican, and in conformity with the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred... | |
| William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 442 pages
...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...remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit : Article I. No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever he molested... | |
| Wisconsin. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1844 - 536 pages
...river Ohio, passed by congress on the 13th day of July, 1787, that certain articles therein contained " shall be considered as articles of compact between...forever remain unalterable unless by common consent;" And whereas it is stipulated in and by the 5th of the said articles of compact, that there shall be... | |
| Commerce - 1844 - 598 pages
...drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan." And it was further provided, that the " articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states in the said territory, should for ever remain unalterable, unless by common consent." Wisconsin, therefore, claims all that... | |
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