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The Ordinance’s method of preserving and improving republican goverment differed from the Constitution’s. Its task was creating new societies, so it payed more direct attention to planting and nurturing the habits and opinions that are the seeds of flourishing republics. In that way it complemented the Constitution - or perhaps even completed it. And for that reason the Northwest Ordinance, and its wisdom, should not be overlooked in this bicentennial year.
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