Sentences with 'ordinances'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ordinances and other words derived from it.
• « There are also historical texts, diplomatic texts, royal ordinances, lists of subject cities, and allocations of offices and privileges. »
• « The Confederation Congress, under the Articles, did achieve success through a series of directives called territorial ordinances, which established rules for the settlement of western public domain lands and the admission of new states to the republic. »
• « The ordinances were intended to prepare land for sale to citizens and to raise revenue to boost the republic's failing economy. »
• « In the land ordinances, the Confederate Congress created the Mississippi and Southwestern territories and stipulated that slavery would be permitted there. »