[muawiyah]

Look up "commerce clause". John Marshall was the first to issue a ruling that Congress' power extended to navigable waters and regulation there did not abridge any riparian rights of adjoining landowners.

The Founders were apparently quite happy with that. If you have a dispute with the idea take it up with the courts; not me. Entirely too much water under the bridge to be able to handle all the combinations and permuations in a single thread.

[hocndoc]

My husband knows a family with a ranch on the Rio Grande . They don’t have access to 15 acres cut off by the fence. They used to grow hay, graze cattle, hunt there. Luckily, the ranch is large and they still can pay the taxes and bills.

The Patriot Act took pasture with no compensation, no recourse. But they still pay property tax.