 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1973 - 1390 頁
...created. And nearly fifty years later, in his famous "Reply to Hayne," Senator Daniel Webster said: I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has had effects of more distinct and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. It will be interesting... | |
 | Harold M. Hyman - 2008 - 110 頁
...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 頁
...constitution of these new north-western states lies the celebrated ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, sir, to praise the law-givers of antiquity ; we help to...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... | |
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We are accustomed . . . to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; 80 FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct,... 
