founding legislators hit upon a formula that permitted
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- Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 276-279 · open book
The founding legislators hit upon a formula that permitted growth of the polity in an incremental and peaceful fashion: new states could be added to the union "on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatsoever," proclaimed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.