 | United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 894 σελίδες
...years, or by both." The language of the 13th Amendment was not new. It reproduced the historic words of the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest territory, and gave them unrestricted application within the United States and all places subject to their jurisdiction.... | |
 | 1927 - 724 σελίδες
...address, which was suggested in large part by the speeches of others who had preceded him, he spoke of the Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory, dwelling especially upon the beneficent influence of the sixth article of compact, which excluded slavery... | |
 | 1917 - 506 σελίδες
...slavery but peonage." But the language of the amendment was not new. It reproduced the historic words of the Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory, and its terms, construed in the light of its history and plain purpose, afford no basis whatever for... | |
 | Otto Gresham - 1927 - 330 σελίδες
...facts, which are usually very few at best. If "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude," as copied out of the Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory and written into the Thirteenth Amendment, is one of the few ultimate facts in our economical and constitutional... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1917 - 988 σελίδες
...slavery, but peonage. But the language of the amendment was not new. lt reproduced the historic words of the Ordinance of 1787 for the Government of the Northwest Territory, and its terms, construed in the light of its history and plain purpose, afford no basis whatever for... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1941 - 580 σελίδες
...slavery but peonage. But the language of the amendment was not new. It reproduced the historic words of the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory, and its terms, construed in the light of its history and plain purpose, afford no basis whatever for... | |
 | 1941 - 586 σελίδες
...slavery but peonage. But the language of the amendment was not new. It reproduced the historic words of the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory, and its terms, construed in the light of its history and plain purpose, afford no basis whatever for... | |
 | United States. Water Resources Policy Commission - 1950 - 540 σελίδες
...the treatment of waterways as free public highways found expression as early as the 1780's. Article 4 of the Ordinance of 1787 for the Government of the Northwest Territory stated : The navigable waterways leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places... | |
 | United States. Water Resources Policy Commission - 1950 - 548 σελίδες
...the treatment of waterways as free public highways found expression as early as the 1780's. Article 4 of the Ordinance of 1787 for the Government of the Northwest Territory stated : The navigable waterways leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places... | |
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The language of the Thirteenth Amendment was not new. It reproduced the historic words of the ordinance of 1787... 
