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This excerpt from the northwest ordinance (1787) represents which constitutional principle? a checks and balanceschecks and balances b bicameralismbicameralism c individual rightsindividual rights d popular sovereignty

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Individual rights

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A bill of rights protecting religious freedom, the right to a writ of habeas corpus, the benefit of trial by jury, and other individual rights; in addition the ordinance encouraged education and forbade slavery.

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