An attempt to drop the word North from the state name was defeated by the 1947 Legislative Assembly (House Concurrent Resolution {H.C.R.} J). Again in 1989, the Legislature rejected two resolutions (Senate Concurrent Resolutions Nos. {S.C.R.
The Noahide Laws were quietly passed in Congress. Congressman Tom Sawyer-Ohio, Congressman Tom Ridge-Pennsylvania (Governor during 911 and Virginia Tech shooting lead investigator), Jewish lobbyist and minority leader Bob Michaels and Congressman Benjamin Gillman-New York.
Congress did not deliver, but also didn't take any affirmative action against the then-present slavery when it came to their attention. This reduced the Ordinance's slavery ban to a fairly weak ban on taking more slaves into the territory. It gets worse. The slavery ban is actually a last-minute addition to the Northwest Ordinance. The closer you look at the law and its enforcement, the harder it is to come up with a clear idea of just what the men who wrote it and voted it through really thought they were doing. First off, the slavery section was adopted without debate. Thus we don't have clear explications of what the law meant to the legislators in the moment. The Lower South politicians who voted for the law almost certainly did not think of it as an antislavery measure, even remotely, or they'd have voted otherwise.