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republican government.
As for the Northwest Ordinance, its grand object is declared to be “extending the fundamental principles of...liberty which form the basis whereon...republics are erected;” and so it tends “to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and government, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the...territory...”
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