[lentulusgracchus]

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was re-authorized in 1789 by the 1st Constitutional Congress with the appropriate edits and other minor changes to reflect the structure of the new form of government.

That's all well and good, but reauthorization wouldn't rescue its unconstitutional sections from the attention of the Supreme Court.

The exclusion of slave ownership from the Northwest Territories was unconstitutional.

[capitan_refugio]

The Ordinance passed constitutional muster several times before Taney saw fit to butcher it seventy years after the fact!