Land Ordinance of 1787 may refer to:
- Northwest Ordinance of 1787, also known as the Ordinance of 1787, establishing governance for the Northwest Territories of Canada
- Land Ordinance of 1785, establishing land policies for new territories in the United States of America
Famous quotes containing the words land and/or ordinance:
“The seashore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-traveled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)