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Excerpt from The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the 1st-10th Congress, 1889-1901
By ex-chief Justice of Illinois, Hon. John M. Scott, of Bloomington, III: The In?uence of the scotch-irish in Establishing Courts and Making Laws in the Old Northwest - Explanatory remarks - 1775 to 1818; the beginning Of law in judicial decisions; first courts in Illinois established by the French, second by the English followed almost immediately by the Americans; tories rigorously punished; vigor of the pioneer courts; the ordinance of 1787; pageantry Of Op ening the first territorial court in 1788; territorial legislation; scotch-irish people of Southern Illinois formed the first constitu tion. What of the hundred years to come?
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