What piece of legislation set patterns by which new states could be admitted to the Union as equals to the existing states?
Articles of Confederation
Constitution
Second Continental Congress
Northwest Ordinance of 1785
2006-09-21 05:26:13 · 6 answers · asked by thisxlifexisntxrealx2006 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The Northwest Ordinance of 1785. The others did not specifically lay out how new states were to be admitted.
2006-09-21 05:41:50 · answer #1 · answered by ³√carthagebrujah 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Out of the four choices, the only one that is legislation at all is the Northwest Ordinance, which is clearly the correct answer. The others are constitutions (the Articles and the Constitution) and an assembly (the Second Continental Congress).
The respondent(s) who guessed the Constitution are simply incorrect, both because it is not legislation but a constitution and because it does not set any pattern for the admission of new States (only granting Congress the power to admit new States and naming circumstances in which the consent of relevant State legislatures may also be required). That's just a case of over-thinking the question.
2006-09-21 13:03:08 · answer #2 · answered by BoredBookworm 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the Articles of Confederation and the Second Continental Congress are not forms of valid law because the Constitution was enacted which overrode them. So we can cross them off.
In the Constitution in Article IV Section 3 it says:
"New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. "
The Northwest Ordinance was "Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by the Continental Congress other than the Declaration of Independence, it established the precedent by which the United States would expand westward across North America by the admission of new states, rather than by the expansion of existing states."
While the Northwest Ordinance may look tempting, it is really the Constitution. The NW Ord. gave precedent, but it was already in the Constitution to do that. All that it did was say that they were going to follow the law of the land and it was the first time that it was done that way. You might want to check with your teacher/professor, but I'd say Constitution.
2006-09-21 12:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by emp04 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That would be the Constitution which is the founding document of our present republic. It includes provisions for organizing the government, provides for the admittance of new states, outlines the powers and responsibilities of each of the three branches of government and so on.
The Articles of Confederation are no longer in effect, as they were superceded by the Constitution.
2006-09-21 14:15:41 · answer #4 · answered by anonymourati 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not a really big problem. a really big problem is like, you're pregnant and your boyfriend is a drug dealer, or you borrowed some money to gamble and now the Mafia is after you, or you have terminal cancer!
This is a trivial problem which you could check out in your history book in about ten seconds.
2006-09-21 14:27:19 · answer #5 · answered by matt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not a problem its a cures
2006-09-21 12:29:41 · answer #6 · answered by scream55 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋