[crz]

The Federal government is not allowed to hold, or control ANY land other than what is listed under article 1 Section 8 of the UNITED STATES constitution.

[DoodleDawg]

The Federal government is not allowed to hold, or control ANY land other than what is listed under article 1 Section 8 of the UNITED STATES constitution. So air force bases, Cape Canaveral, the Houston Space Center, all national parks and monuments, the interstate highways, federal office buildings, all are unconstitutional?

[Sherman Logan]

If you repeat something often enough and use enough CAPITALS, it will eventually become true.

The section in question addresses the power of Congress to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over territory within a state purchased with the agreement of the state legislature.

Public, federally owned lands within a state are not under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. If I kill somebody on BLM or National Forest land, it’s a state crime, not a federal crime. AFAIK, anyway.

[DoodleDawg]

The Federal government is not allowed to hold, or control ANY land other than what is listed under article 1 Section 8 of the UNITED STATES constitution.

Then why the need for Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2?