...constitution of Alabama, adopted at the time of the admiscion of the state into the Union, declared that "schools, and the means of education, shall be forever encouraged in this State." This mandate of the constitution remained ineffective for a long time. Nothing whatever was...

...(1817). — Religion, morality, and knowledge, and so on, like the ordinance of 1787. Alabama (1819).— Schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged in this State. Maine (1820). — A general diffusion of the advantages of education beiug essential to the...

...successor,, until the government is fully organized in accordance with the provisions of tliis law. SEC. 4. Schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged in this Territory. One or more schools shall be established in each village as soon as practicable, where the...