The Educational Significance of the Early Federal Land Ordinances, by Howard Cromwell TaylorTeachers College, Columbia University, 1922 - 138 páginas |
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Página 34 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 9 - There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools within the said township...
Página 105 - That section numbered sixteen in every township, and when such section has been sold, or otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to the state for the use, of the inhabitants of such township, for the use of schools.
Página 107 - That section numbered sixteen in every township of the public lands, and where such section has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to the State for the use of schools.
Página 75 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Página 31 - States, and be settled 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...
Página 131 - The United States of America, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, That...
Página 135 - Institutions for the liberal education of Youth being essential to the progress of Arts and Sciences, important to morals and religion, friendly to the peace, order, and prosperity of Society, and honorable to the Government which patronizes them ; and Congress having made grants of lands for the encouragement and support of a University, for schools, and for the purposes of Religion, within the purchase made by the Ohio Company of Associates ; Therefore : SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General...
Página 42 - When I drew the ordinance (which passed, a few words excepted, as I originally formed it) I had no idea the states would agree to the sixth article, prohibiting slavery, as only Massachusetts of the Eastern states was present, and therefore omitted it in the draft; but finding the House favorably disposed on the subject, after we had completed the other parts, I moved the article, which was agreed to without opposition.
Página 78 - ... it being the interest of this Commonwealth always to promote and encourage every design which may tend to the improvement of the mind, and the diffusion of useful knowledge even among its remote citizens, whose situation, in a barbarous neighborhood and a savage intercourse, might otherwise render unfriendly to science...