[taxcontrol]

Yes the Government did purchase the land, for $15 million at the end of the US Mexico war per the treaty of Guadalupe Hildago. Note that was before Nevada was even a state. Further Nevada ceded any control or even taxation of the land in their state constitution.

[GregNH]

So why did the government allow Nevada to become a state with states rights under the constitution? Isn’t the purchase of anything by the federal government owned by the people of all the United Sates?

[mad_as_he$$]

Taxcontrol:"Further Nevada ceded any control or even taxation of the land in their state constitution. " Provide EXACT citation in the Nevada Constitution for that statement. The Nevada State Constitution Says: The Act of Congress Approved March Twenty First A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Four “To enable the People of the Territory of Nevada to form a Constitution and State Government and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the Original States,” requires that the Members of the Convention for framing said Constitution shall, after Organization, on behalf of the people of said Territory, adopt the Constitution of the United States.—Therefore, Be it Resolved, That the Members of this Convention, elected by the Authority of the aforesaid enabling Act of Congress, Assembled in Carson City the Capital of said Territory of Nevada, and immediately subsequent to its Organization, do adopt, on behalf of the people of said Territory the Constitution of the United States[.]