“All states shall be admitted into the union on an equal footing”.
The fed. do not get to change the rules of admission at their whim, the “Requirement” that Nevada cede it’s public lands to the Fed. as a condition of admittance as a state is hogwash.
You go too far back in an attempt to confuse the issue, the discussion is the admission of the Nevada territory as a state and the scandalous special punitive conditions the Fed. (Lincoln) placed on that admission.
Strict adherence to constitutional doctrine would require ALL the public lands that were not BOUGHT by the Fed. as specified in our constitution to be returned.
This would include the Yucca Mountain site, “Area 51”, several military bases, ammo dumps, “Wilderness”, “Public lands”, etc, in excess of 80% of the total state land area.
We are supposed to receive PILT funds per Fed. law, of course they are always late, and incomplete.
Thank you for hardening my position, I will do all I can next Saturday to guarantee that anyone even remotely sharing your view does NOT become our next congressman.
That's really not too far back. It is BACK TO THE FOUNDING.
Virginia was an independent nation state according to the Treaty of Paris. It had vast holdings ~ one of them quite immense consisting of the former French claim from the Ohio North and the Mississippi East to the Spanish boundary for New York and New England.
ALL OF THOSE HOLDINGS were given up to the federal government as a condition of joining the Union.
BTW, at that time Virginia had half the population of the the former British North American colonies!
The FOUNDERS who had formed the United States of America, and fought for independence are the same FOUNDERS who yielded Virginia's public lands to the federal government. They went on to write the Constitution of 1790.
Do you perhaps want to fuzz forward to some other time to create some mythos about the formerly independent nation state of Nevada?
That's garbage. Nevada was part of Carolana from the foundations of Spanish land claims.
There are those who will argue that Nevada became part of the Mexican land claims when Spain signed a treaty with Mexico, but without the assent of the former nation states of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, that really doesn't count.
The USA patted Mexico on the head and paid off their dictators to get the spurious Mexican land claims out of the way, but no one can dispute that the rights of Carolana passed on to the Carolinas and to the federal government, and they were SEA TO SEA.
Your attempted acts of rebellion are being well noted ~ and when you try to run off with a piece of our country THE WATER STAYS HERE!