The people within a state and their sovereign state governments should be allowed to control the land and resources within their state boundaries. Why should the western states not be allowed to commercially exploit their land and natural resources just as the eastern and mid-western states did and do? Timber, coal, oil, gas, minerals, water, fisheries, ranch land, fertile farmland, all locked up forever depriving the states and the people of commercial opportunity? This is not the American way. America was founded on the principles of God-given equality under the law, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Our constitution recognizes state sovereignty and guarantees each state self-rule and a republican form of government and states rights. The federals controlling land use on 86% of the land within a state’s boundaries is not sovereignty, not self-rule, not a republican form of government. It’s a dictatorship. And it’s unconstitutional.
This federal dictatorship not square with the founding principles, the Declaration or the Constitution.
er, This federal dictatorship DOES NOT square with the founding principles, the Declaration or the Constitution.