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" It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless... "
Constitutional History of the United States from Their Declaration of ... - Page 472
by George Ticknor Curtis - 1896 - 1554 pages
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Confront the Now Create the Future

Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - Self-Help - 1995 - 244 pages
...ABROGATION of Rights to Govern and make the Laws of the People compatible under the CONSTITUTION.) Article 1: "No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and...ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory." Article 2: "The inhabitants of the said territory SHALL...
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Church and State in the Modern Age: A Documentary History

J. F. Maclear - History - 1995 - 534 pages
...Northwest Ordinance, passed by the Continental Congress in 1787 (reenacted 1789). Article I had stated that "no person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly...be molested on account of his mode of worship, or religious sentiments," and Article III had added that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...
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Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious ...

Steven Douglas Smith - Law - 1999 - 190 pages
...reenacted by the new Congress in 1789. Article 1 of the ordinance provided that in the Northwest Territory "[n]o person demeaning himself in a peaceable and...ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments." 42 This language appears to be a free exercise provision that adopted a substantive...
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The Jew in the American World: A Source Book

Jacob Rader Marcus - History - 1996 - 668 pages
...the people. VI. The Northwest Ordinance Implicitly Emancipates Jews in All New States, July 13, 1787 ART. 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable...ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory. VII. Jonas Phillips Asks the Constitutional Convention...
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On Faith and Free Government

Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said...ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory. Art. 2. The inhabitants of the said territory shall always...
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Focus on U.S. History: The Era of Revolution and Nation-Forming

Kathy Sammis - History - 1997 - 130 pages
...to use their own words or to quote directly from the Ordinance. 1. Practice of religion — Article 1: No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and...ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory. 2. Justice system — Article 2: The inhabitants of the...
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Covenant and Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal ...

Daniel Judah Elazar - Political Science - 1998 - 312 pages
...articles that go beyond the ordinance itself to bind the new states to be admitted under it. ARTICLE I No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly...be molested on account of his mode of worship, or religious sentiments, in the said territory. ARTICLE II The inhabitants of the said territory shall...
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American Jewish History: The Colonial and Early National Periods ..., Volume 1

jeffrey s gurock - History - 1998 - 516 pages
...the United States northwest of the river Ohio." The principles of that ordinance — among them, that no person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly...be molested on account of his mode of worship, or religious sentiments, in the said territory"2 — secured in law to Jews and other religious minorities...
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Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original ...

Derek H. Davis - Religion - 2000 - 328 pages
...States in said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: Article 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and...be molested on account of his mode of worship, or religious sentiments, in the said territory. Article 3. Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary...
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A Nation Under God?: Essays on the Future of Religion in American Public Life

R. Bruce Douglass, Joshua Mitchell - Reference - 2000 - 274 pages
...authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original States and the people and States in the said...remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: Article I: No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner shall ever be molested on...
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