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J. L. Bell said...

Are you perhaps from the old Northwest Territory? I say that because I don’t hear a lot of New Englanders thinking of the Northwest Ordinance as a “founding” so much as ordinary government business like the Homestead Act. Regional prejudice, I’m sure.

In this context of what the American people consider the nation’s founding, I think the Articles of Confederation gets barely any attention at all and is really very important, so that would actually be next on my list.

Apr 1, 2008, 7:12:00 PM

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