<P> Half a millennium later, following the American Revolution, legislators looked to Magna Carta for inspiration, and emulated its "law of the land" language . Versions of it can be found in the Virginia Constitution of 1776, the North Carolina Constitution of 1776, the Delaware Constitution of 1776, the Maryland Constitution of 1776, the New York Constitution of 1777, the South Carolina Constitution of 1778, the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, and the New Hampshire Constitution of 1784 . </P> <P> In 1787, the Continental Congress adopted the Northwest Ordinance for governance of areas in the United States outside of the individual states . Congress wrote: "No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land ." Following adoption of the United States Constitution, Congress re-adopted the Northwest Ordinance in 1789 . </P> <P> This term was used in 1787 to write the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which states: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the land ..." The Supremacy Clause is the only place in the Constitution where this exact term was used . </P> <P> This term has been the subject of numerous scholarly works and judicial decisions over the years . Usually the English term is used, but sometimes the Latin: lex terrae, or legem terrae in the accusative case (i.e. when the term is being used as the object in a sentence). </P>

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