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เนื้อหาย่อ : ba ddheee nor more than five were to be carved out of aid uerritory) was to be ''at liberty to form a perma- enszitution and State government: provided, the ion and government so to be formed, shall be re- an, and in conformity to the principles contained a der arnides [the six articles of the Ordinance]." The ezritory for which the Northwest Ordinance pro- wd a grernment extended from the west side of the es to the east bank of the Mississippi, and from bank of the Ohio to the present Canadian bor- principle upon which the Ordinance was ied, bowever-that unsettled lands be administered gunsin preparation and be oriented as such from the nes of settlement--was so sound that it was to ce ir ail other territories acquired by settlement or ine up to, and in, the Pacific. As statehood moved need it became more fexible; west of the Alleghenies nns were framed for a society of pioneers, farm- er rugged individualists very unlike the aristo- which was long influential in the East. s of strong executive government, the people sates delegated the bulk of power to their legis- confining their governors to mere ad- e functions. But even as they yielded increasing so the executive over the years, they evolved sfer retaining control where it belonged-at the mee It was in the West that the first provisions for be and referendum were put into state constitu- Fesale sulirage was first enacted in Wyoming and dua The West fostered free enterprise on the one aad de eight-bour work day, workmen's compensa- ad regulation of public utilities on the other.