<span> it established the precedent by which the Federal government would be sovereign and expand westward with the </span>admission of new states<span>, rather than with the expansion of existing states and their established sovereignty under the </span>Articles of Confederation<span>. It was also precedent setting legislation with regard to American </span>public domain lands<span>.</span>
It brought justice to war criminals
It will be easy about me, why do you think? As an independent sovereign Ivan lll began to behave towards the Tatars. In 1476. He refused to pay them an annual tribute and entered into an alliance with the Crimean Khan, an enemy of the Golden Horde. Standing on the Ugra (1480) put an end to the Mongol-Tatar yoke. The Russian state acquired formal sovereignty.
