Enabling Act of 1802 (original) (raw)
The Enabling Act of 1802 was passed on April 30, 1802 by the Seventh Congress of the United States. This act authorized the residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio and join the U.S. on an equal footing with the other states. To accomplish this, and in doing so, the act also established the precedent and procedures for creation of future states in the western territories. The Enabling Act of 1802 would be the first appropriation by Congress for internal improvements in the country's interior.
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| dbo:abstract | The Enabling Act of 1802 was passed on April 30, 1802 by the Seventh Congress of the United States. This act authorized the residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio and join the U.S. on an equal footing with the other states. To accomplish this, and in doing so, the act also established the precedent and procedures for creation of future states in the western territories. The Enabling Act of 1802 would be the first appropriation by Congress for internal improvements in the country's interior. Ohio was the first state to be created out of the Northwest Territory, which had been established by the Northwest Ordinance on July 13, 1787 in an act of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. The Northwest Ordinance laid out the conditions for the development and creation of states from the territory. With the act of May 7, 1800, the eastern part of the Northwest Territory, Ohio was set off under a distinct territorial government, and the remainder was organized as the territory of Indiana. By 1802 Ohio, in the eastern division of the Northwest Territory, had reached a population of 60,000 and was entitled to begin the transition to statehood. The Enabling Act of 1802 set forth the legal mechanisms and authorized the people of Ohio to begin this process. The act required the people of Ohio to elect a delegate for each 1,200 people to attend a constitutional convention. These delegates would meet in Chillicothe on November 1, 1802, and would decide by majority vote whether or not to form a constitution and state government, and, if so, either provide for the election of representatives for a constitutional convention or to proceed immediately with the matter. The new constitution and government of Ohio was required only to be "republican, and not repugnant to the ordinance of the thirteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, between the original States and the people and States of the territory northwest of the river Ohio". The new state was to be equal in status to the existing states, and would have only one Representative to the United States House of Representatives until the next census. To help provide that equal status, section seven of the act offered three "propositions" to the convention for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted, would be obligatory upon the United States; these granted certain lands held by the Federal government to the new state, notably those set aside for public schools, and provided that 5% of the proceeds from sale of Federal lands would fund creations of roads to and through Ohio. The convention met from November 1 to 29; it agreed to form a state, accepted the several land-use proposals, and wrote the Ohio Constitution of 1802, which went into force without submission to popular vote. On February 19, 1803 Congress passed an act "providing for the execution of the laws of the United States in the State of Ohio" (Sess. 2, ch. 7, 2 Stat. 201). This act did not purport to admit the state, but declared that Ohio, by the formation of its constitution in pursuance of the act of April 30, 1802, "has become one of the United States of America." Neither act, however, set a formal date of statehood. An official statehood date for Ohio was not set until 1953, when the 83rd Congress passed a Joint resolution "for admitting the State of Ohio into the Union", (Pub.L. 83–204, 67 Stat. 407, enacted August 7, 1953) which designated March 1, 1803, as that date. (en) L'Enabling Act, o Atto di Permissione del 1802, fu approvato il 30 aprile 1802 dal settimo Congresso degli Stati Uniti. Questo atto autorizzò ai residenti della parte orientale del Territorio del nord-ovest a formare lo Stato dell'Ohio e ad unirsi agli Stati Uniti d'America come diciassettesimo Stato. Venne proposto anche di creare altri Stati smembrando il Territorio del nord-ovest. L'Ohio fu il primo Stato ad essere creato sottraendo al Territorio del nord-ovest delle aree, come stabilito dall'Ordinanza del nordovest nel 1787 in un atto del Congresso continentale sotto gli Articoli della Confederazione. L'Ordinanza del nordovest chiese infatti la creazione di un nuovo Stato, possibilmente da unire agli Stati Uniti. Nel 1802 l'Ohio, situato nella parte più orientale del Territorio del nord-ovest, superava i 60.000 abitanti, uno dei requisiti per l'entrata nell'Unione. L'Enabling Act del 1802 permise agli abitanti dell'Ohio di iniziare la procedura per la creazione del nuovo Stato. L'atto obbligava gli abitanti dell'Ohio ad eleggere un delegato ogni 1.200 persone per partecipare alle convenzioni costituzionali. Questi delegati si incontrarono nella città di Chillicothe il 1º novembre 1802, e decisero come svolgere le elezioni per il Governatore statale, i membri del consiglio, dei giudici e dei rappresentanti che avrebbero partecipato alla riunione costituzionale. Il nuovo Stato godeva dello stesso tipo di status degli altri Stati dell'unione e avrebbe posseduto solo un rappresentante nella Camera dei Rappresentanti degli Stati Uniti durante il successivo censimento. L'atto garantì anche delle terre possedute solamente dall'Ohio e scuole pubbliche. Promise inoltre che un ventesimo del guadagno ricavato dalla Camera dei Rappresentanti sarebbe stato investito nella costruzione di edifici pubblici, strade e ponti. La convenzione era d'accordo nella creazione del nuovo Stato, della superficie delle terre possedute e dei membri politici e creò la Costituzione dell'Ohio nel 1802. Il 19 febbraio 1803 il Congresso riconobbe ufficialmente lo Stato dell'Ohio come parte degli Stati Uniti d'America. (it) |
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| rdfs:comment | The Enabling Act of 1802 was passed on April 30, 1802 by the Seventh Congress of the United States. This act authorized the residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio and join the U.S. on an equal footing with the other states. To accomplish this, and in doing so, the act also established the precedent and procedures for creation of future states in the western territories. The Enabling Act of 1802 would be the first appropriation by Congress for internal improvements in the country's interior. (en) L'Enabling Act, o Atto di Permissione del 1802, fu approvato il 30 aprile 1802 dal settimo Congresso degli Stati Uniti. Questo atto autorizzò ai residenti della parte orientale del Territorio del nord-ovest a formare lo Stato dell'Ohio e ad unirsi agli Stati Uniti d'America come diciassettesimo Stato. Venne proposto anche di creare altri Stati smembrando il Territorio del nord-ovest. (it) |
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