...Sec. 14. It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid. That the following articles Realm, that what a man has honestly acquird is absolutely...freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: Art. 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable...

...interest. It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between...and States in the said Territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to-wit: ARTICLE I. — No person demeaning himself in a peaceable...

...mutual consent clauses. Section 14 of the famous Northwest Ordinance of 1787, for example, contained six "articles of compact, between the original States...and the people and States in the said territory, and [shall] forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent." Van Brocklin v. Tennessee, 117 US 151,...