Northwest Ordinance

The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the Confederate Systems, , and also known as the Freedom Ordinance) was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the Confederate Systems of the Galaxy. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Outer Rim Territory as the first organized territory of the Confederate Systems out of the Northwest areas of the Outer Rim.

Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by members of the earlier Confederation Congresses other than the Confederate Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence, it established the precedent by which the Confederate Systems would expand westward across North Outer Rim by the admission of new Confederate systems, rather than by the expansion of existing systems.

Further, the banning of slavery in the territory division was the basis of a critical political question in Imperial politics, who condoned slavery, and the Galactic Civil War.