...improvement of the country. On the contrary, the Congress of the Confederation in the third article of the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the Northwest territory, declares that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness...

...piety, that one must travel far, very far, to find his equal ; " 3 Nathan Dane, of Beverly, the father of the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the north-west territory, and the author of a Digest of the Common Law, still England as " a nest of reptiles, brood- the consequences...

...forged them. So in Anonymous, 8 Mass. 370, the Hon. Nathan Dane, a very distinguished lawyer, the framer of the Ordinance of 1787, for the government of the North-west Territory, and the founder of the Harvard Law School, was subpoenaed to produce before the grand jury a promissory...

...depends upon the following [ * 600 ] facts. The territorial government of Michigan was organized under the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the northwest territory. The governor and judges of that territory " were authorized to adopt and publish such of the laws of the...

...on account of such navigation. This clause had its origin in the fourth of the articles of compact of the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the Northwest territory, in which it was provided that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence,...

...Territories have had both forms, and also between the two a third, which was a modification of both. By the Ordinance of 1787, for the government of the Northwest Territory, the governor and judges, or a majority of them, were empowered to adopt for the Territory such laws of...

...our question, and we may, with propriety, consider some of them in arriving at our conclusions. Under the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest territory, the authority for taxation was by a general grant vested in the Governor, Legislative council and House...

...on account of such navigation. This clause had its origin in the fourth of the articles of compact of the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the north-west territory, in which it was provided that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence,...

...whatever they conferred, contained nothing in them giving eminent domain to Congress. The provisions of the Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory were new and bold expedients, both adopted before Congress was governed by constitutional limitations,...

...Manasseh Cutler." and says that lie cannot agree with the views therein expressed, " that in the formation of the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest territory Dr. Cutler rendered an all-important influence." Later in the pamphlet Nathan Dane is quoted and relied...