...terms of Virginia's act of cession required that the states to be formed from this territory shall be " admitted members of the Federal Union, having the...sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other states." Shortly after the cession a committee of the congress of the confederation was raised to frame an ordinance...

...grant was lo be made upon the " condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and fo -med into States ;" and that " the States so formed shall...distinct republican States, and admitted members of ihe Federal Union, having the same rights of Sovereignty, Freedom, and Independence as the other States."...

...and forined into distinct republican slates; which shall become members of the federal union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States." (3 Journals of Congress, 516, 535.) From these references we have the whole policy of Congress concerning...

...should be laid out and formed into distinct republican States, which should be admitted as members to Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling clas Slates The first effort to fulfil this trust was made in 1785, by the offer of a charter or compact...

...should be laid out and formed into distinct republican States, which should be admitted as members to the Federal Union, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States The first effort to fulfil this trust was made in 1785, by the offer of a charter or compact to the...

...formed into distinct republican states ' which should 'become members of the federal union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states'. With this impediment removed, it was possible for Congress to announce acceptance of the articles on...

...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 . . . .M One of the many compromises made by the confederating states was their agreement to relinquish...

...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. . . ." M One of the many compromises made by the confederating states was their agreement to relinquish...

...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. . . ."" One of the many compromises made by the confederating states was their agreement to relinquish...

...formed inlo dislincl 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 . . . .* One of the many compromises made by the confederating stales was Iheir agreement to relinquish...