| Harold M. Hyman - History - 2008 - 110 pages
...uniqueness and salutary effects of the 1787 Ordinance, including those by Daniel Webster, who had doubted "whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of a more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787," and by Salmon Portland... | |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 492 pages
...of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts.... | |
| George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...... to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787."69 Others have referred to this law as "the great Ordinance," the "Magna... | |
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