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...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...

...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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...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." New York was the first state to give up its western claims, followed by an indication from Virginia...

...regulations under which the settlements shall exist till they become "distinct republican States as members of the federal union, having the same rights...sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States"? and did not the framers of our National Constitution, employ the word "regulations"— in the clause...

...which stipulated that "in due course, territories were to become States in the Federal union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other States," as well as the "territorial clause" of the US Constitution.20 Article IV, Section 3 gives Congress...

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