The Federal constitution, and Acts of Congress passed in pursuance of it.
1849. [The origin of a Territorial Government] is not from such people, but from the law of Congress, usually styled the “organic law,” establishing it…. The rules that Government has itself prescribed in the “organic law.”—Mr. Westcott of Florida, U.S., Senate, July 25: Cong. Globe, p. 46, App.
1883. His official duty under the organic Act by which the Territory [Kansas] was organized.—G. T. Curtis, ‘Life of James Buchanan,’ ii. 202 (N.E.D.).
