what is North-West Ordinance of USA 1787?
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It applies to the Northwest Territory (now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota).  It basically broke the territory up into 6mi by 6mi sections (36 square miles).  The government would sell no less than 1 square mile (640 acres) at no less than $1 per acre.\n  It made the Northwest Territory one political unit ruled by a governor and judges appointed by Congress.  When 5,000 male adults lived in the territory, it could organize a bicameral legislature and send a delegate to Congress, who could speak but not vote in Congress.  A state required 60,000 people.  \n  It forbade slavery and ensured public education support and freedom or religion.  The new states would be considered equal to the first 13.\n\nHope that helps ;)
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1. a. Declaration of Independance\n    b. Articles of the confederation\n    c. Bill of Rights\n    d. Constitution\n  (these are a few of them)\n\n2. a. Alexander Hamilton \n    b. Ben Franklin\n    c. George Washington\n    d.James McHenry\n    e. David Brearley
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14th- Equal protection of law for all citizens.\n15th- Giving African Americans the right to vote.
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The firs amendment is part of the bill of rights, which was ratified in 1791.  It protects the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom to petition, etc.  The followinig sources are great for learning about the first amendment...\n\nAlso, check out this blurb.\n\nCONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.
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the supreme law of the land. it explains rights, government etc.
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The U.S. Constitution was drafted on September 17, 1787.\n\nIt was officially ratified and became effective March 4, 1789.\n\nThe first ten amendments (the "Bill of Rights") were ratified December 15, 1791.
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Known as the "Father of the Constitution," he played a leading role in the creation of the United States Constitution in 1787, and was among the chief expounders of its meaning in the Federalist Papers (1788). He was a leading theorist of republicanism as a political value system for the new nation. As a leader in the House of Representatives he formulated the Bill of Rights and worked closely with President George Washington to organize the new federal government.
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The Missouri Compromise, also called the Compromise of 1820, was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery for all new states north of the 36°30' line, or the border of the Arkansas territory (excluding Missouri). Prior to the agreement, the House of Representatives had refused to accept this boundary and a conference committee was appointed. The United States Senate refused to concur in the amendment, and the whole measure was lost. During the following session (1819-1820), the House passed a similar bill with an amendment introduced on January 26, 1820 by John W. Taylor of New York allowing Missouri into the union as a slave state. In the meantime, the question had been complicated by the admission in December of Alabama, a slave state (the number of slave and free states now becoming equal), and by the passage through the House (January 3, 1820) of a bill to admit Maine as a free state.
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Try this site: \nhttp://www.constitution.org/bcp/albany.htm\nIt wasn't very difficult to read only a couple of paragraphs bascially it was an agreement in 1754 to help the colonists and the Indians. It  was drafted by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian wars.
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Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, ratified 12/15/1791.  The amendment reads as follows:  \n\nThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.\n\nPowers prohibited of the states are found in Article 1, Section 10 of the US Constitution.  This section reads as follows: \n\nNo State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.\n\nNo State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.\n\nNo State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
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Amendment 14 Section 1 [1868]:\n"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
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Amendment I\n\nCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. \n\n\nAmendment II\n\nA well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
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It was written in 1787 in Philadelphia by the Continental Congress of the new American republic and was officially adopted in 1789.http://www.usconstitution.com/
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None.  No other country declared or gained independence in 1776
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Article [XVIII].(See Note 16)\nSection 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. \n\nSection. 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. \n\nSection. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. \n\nProposal and Ratification \n\nThe eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-fifth Congress, on the 18th of December, 1917, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated the 29th of January, 1919, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates of ratification were: Mississippi, January 8, 1918; Virginia, January 11, 1918; Kentucky, January 14, 1918; North Dakota, January 25, 1918; South Carolina, January 29, 1918; Maryland, February 13, 1918; Montana, February 19, 1918; Texas, March 4, 1918; Delaware, March 18, 1918; South Dakota, March 20, 1918; Massachusetts, April 2, 1918; Arizona, May 24, 1918; Georgia, June 26, 1918; Louisiana, August 3, 1918; Florida, December 3, 1918; Michigan, January 2, 1919; Ohio, January 7, 1919; Oklahoma, January 7, 1919; Idaho, January 8, 1919; Maine, January 8, 1919; West Virginia, January 9, 1919; California, January 13, 1919; Tennessee, January 13, 1919; Washington, January 13, 1919; Arkansas, January 14, 1919; Kansas, January 14, 1919; Alabama, January 15, 1919; Colorado, January 15, 1919; Iowa, January 15, 1919; New Hampshire, January 15, 1919; Oregon, January 15, 1919; Nebraska, January 16, 1919; North Carolina, January 16, 1919; Utah, January 16, 1919; Missouri, January 16, 1919; Wyoming, January 16, 1919. \n\nRatification was completed on January 16, 1919. See Dillon v. Gloss, 256 U.S. 368, 376 (1921). \n\nThe amendment was subsequently ratified by Minnesota on January 17, 1919; Wisconsin, January 17, 1919; New Mexico, January 20, 1919; Nevada, January 21, 1919; New York, January 29, 1919; Vermont, January 29, 1919; Pennsylvania, February 25, 1919; Connecticut, May 6, 1919; and New Jersey, March 9, 1922. \n\nThe amendment was rejected (and not subsequently ratified) by Rhode Island. \n  LOOKS TO ME LIKE THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT LIQUOR/PROHIBITION.
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The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It created a federal union of sovereign states, and a federal government to operate that union. It replaced the less well-defined union that existed under the Articles of Confederation.\n\nDuring the Revolutionary War, the thirteen states first formed a very weak central government—with the Congress being its only component—under the Articles of Confederation. Congress lacked any power to impose taxes, and, because there was no national executive or judiciary, it relied on state authorities, who were often uncooperative, to enforce all its acts. It also had no authority to override tax laws and tariffs between states. The Articles required unanimous consent from all the states before they could be amended and states took the central government so lightly that their representatives were often absent. For lack of a quorum, Congress was frequently blocked from making even moderate changes.
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