Let them take most of Massachusetts, Connecticut, etc.
Posted on 01/05/2015 6:04:49 PM PST by george76
Utah passed a law in 2012 demanding the federal government give up about 31 million acres, about 50 percent of the state, by Dec. 31, 2014.
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Ivory and other supporters of the land transfer say the state’s legal claim lies in the Utah Enabling Act, which led to Utah’s statehood in 1896. ..
If Utah pursues a lawsuit, the state attorney general’s office has warned lawmakers they need to avoid flawed theories or inconsistent arguments used by western states in the 1970s and 1980s during a similar push known as the Sagebrush Rebellion.
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Montana, Wyoming and Nevada have passed resolutions or requested studies of the legal arguments and costs and benefits of the issue. Idaho passed a resolution in 2013 demanding the federal government hand over control of public land in that state
(Excerpt) Read more at news.hjnews.com ...
Let them take most of Massachusetts, Connecticut, etc.
It really is almost funny — in MA, the feds control the house where JFK was born, and a couple other places. I guess in ... let’s say: Nevada ... the situation is a bit more extreme.
“... in MA, the feds control the house where JFK was born, and a couple other places. I guess in ... let’s say: Nevada ... the situation is a bit more extreme.”
Yeah, but they used to “control” a whorehouse just outside Reno, NV called “The Musgtang Ranch,” when the owner, Joe Conforti got caught up with the IRS. Can you imagine that the IRS, that routinely screws the citizens, couldn’t run a place where people go to screw! They had to close it down because it lost money under their “management.”
It failed because they didn't name it "O'MamaCare!"
Oh yeah... That’s the “EQUAL FOOTING” map of the “WAR ON THE WEST!”
Go Utah!!
A truly odd notion.
Utah Enabling Act: "That the people inhabiting said proposed State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof; ... and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States"
Curious the legal theory that uses this act to say the land belongs to the state.
I have no problem with Congress turning the land over to the state, just with the idea that the state has a legal or constitutional right to it.
this was settled when
Utah became a state.
Apparently not.
I love my lily white state...
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