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This Day in Legal History: The Northwest Ordinance
On July 13, 1787, the Confederation Congress adopted the Northwest Ordinance, one of the most important laws in American history—and one passed under the Articles of Confederation, before the Constitution even existed. Its formal subject was dry: how to govern the vast territory north and west of the Ohio River. But in answering that question, it set precedents that shaped the entire future of the nation.
The Ordinance did several remarkable things at once. It created an orderly process by which frontier territories would move through stages…
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