Land Ordinance

In U.S. land history, there are at least three land ordinances of note:

  • Land Ordinance of 1784
  • Land Ordinance of 1785
  • Land Ordinance of 1796

Famous quotes containing the words land and/or ordinance:

    “The land was ours before we were the land’s.
    She was our land more than a hundred years
    Before we were her people.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “I fear it is the effect of this ordinance to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed and which distracts the mind of the worshipper.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)