[MamaTexan]

First, I'd like to note the references given at the beginning are not from the original Library of Congress documents, but from books ranging from 1937 on.

The next questionable factor is on page 332, last sentence of the first paragraph.

Yet the Equal Footing Doctrine, while found in the Northwest ordinance is unmentioned in the Constitution and thus rarely is a factor in Constitutional adjudication.

That's really weird. Especially considering all the entries Congress left in the Library that say things like- Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 38th Congress, 2nd Session, Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to enable the people of Nevada to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:1:./temp/~ammem_BUtJ::

There are also entries for other States, all with the same wording
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query

.....on an equal footing with the original states.

[xzins]

The good thing about this study being on Free Republic is that it can be reviewed and analyzed. The professor has a long history of supporting conservative causes, but some might want to double check part A of his conclusion that the liberals are right about permanent property ownership and that they can’t be simply ceded to the states. (He then says in Part B that permanent ownership can’t be for unenumerated purposes.)