Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Before the Constitution was fully tested, another charter quietly shaped the American republic: the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Its impact still shapes law. In this searching early American history essay, Ohio statesman and historian William Parker Cutler reflects on the Ordinance of July 13, 1787 and its far-reaching design for the governance of the Northwest Territory. Speaking a century later to the Ohio State Historical and Archaeological Society, Cutler traces how this landmark act ordered settlement in the Ohio Valley, safeguarded civil liberties, and laid the legal groundwork for Ohio statehood origins and the rise of new communities across the interior. Both a primary source document of nineteenth-century historical thought and a lucid guide to 18th century American law, it illuminates one of the great founding documents of America within the broader arc of US constitutional history. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure. Ideal for American history students, college history coursework, and general readers curious about Ohio Valley history and the northwest ordinance 1787, this historical reprint edition offers a compact, authoritative window onto the making of the early republic - a heritage work equally at home on the scholar’s desk and the collector’s shelf.
