 ... and that the States so formed shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of the Federal Union, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other States...  The Life of Stephen A. Douglas - Page 478by James Washington Sheahan - 1860 - 528 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. National Archives and Records Service - Constitutional history - 1970 - 84 pages
...and formed into distinct republican States which shall become members of the fcederal Union and have the same rights of Sovereignty freedom and independence as the other states. Only after Virginia ceded her claims on January 2, 1781, was Maryland willing to ratify the Articles... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 396 pages
...and formed into distinct Republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States." A proud but generous Commonwealth, always ready to make sacrifices, "to establish the Federal Union... | |
 | D. W. Meinig - History - 1986 - 532 pages
...and formed into distinct republican states, which shall become members of the federal union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." This principle had emerged from intensifying discussions since 1776 on the vexing problems of western... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - History - 1991 - 470 pages
...and formed into distinct republican states, which shall become members of the federal union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states. . . ." The resolution also specified, at Virginia's insistence, "that each state which shall be so... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 470 pages
...erection of the ceded lands into republican states, to be admitted to membership in the Federal Union with the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other states. The Massachusetts cession of 1785 and the Connecticut cession of 1786 were followed in 1787 by the... | |
 | Eric Hinderaker - History - 1999 - 324 pages
...and formed into distinct republican states, which shall become members of the federal union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." This radical conception of the new nation - liberal in its offer to share power with states whose existence... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...lands would be organized, settled, and admitted as "distinct republican States," which "shall have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." 14 Virginia's cession of its western lands after the Revolution recited the congressional language... | |
 | Wallace Stegner - Fiction - 1998 - 386 pages
...formed into distinct republican states, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and shall have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other states." 1 hree laws were significant in the administration and disposal of that first public domain. The Ordinance... | |
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