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To: TigersEye

So in fact you concede the point that the Federal Government is empowered by the U.S Constitution to purchase and own land? Because that was your point entirely.

The fact remains, you spoke as if you really knew something about the matter, as it turns out you knew nothing and tossed a flippant quote of the 10th amendment as a catch all excuse.

While I, knowing nothing about the situation researched the veracity of the original post and then researched the claim that the Federal Government isn’t entitled to own land. Including Articles in the Constitution and several prominent cases adjudicated by the SCOTUS regarding public land leases, land purchases from States, and adjacent clauses.

And the fact still remains, we don’t even know the providence of the land in question, for all we know it could be part and parcel of land acquired by Federal Government through “Manifest Destiny”, war, stolen from the American Indian, or purchased from a foreign entity.


23 posted on 12/12/2012 5:43:39 PM PST by Usagi_yo
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To: Usagi_yo

No, I don’t concede that disingenuous misrepresentation of the text of the Constitution. The text is specific and it clearly doesn’t cover the land use in question.


24 posted on 12/12/2012 5:49:48 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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