Authors: Confederation Congress

1764–1787

The Northwest Ordinance

Source: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=8 Section 1. Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to

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1764–1787

Excerpts from Founding Documents

Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one

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