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The Northwest Ordinance
Article 3
July 13, 1787
The article gives a reason before it gives an instruction: religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and to happiness, schools and the means of education are to be encouraged forever. It then binds the government to the utmost good faith towards the Indians, says their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent, and requires laws to be made preventing wrongs done to them.
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