[DiogenesLamp]

You just make crap up as you go along, don't you? Eminent domain doesn't allow states to seize federal property any more than it allows the federal government to seize state property.

And this is exactly why all the British forts in 1776 still remain in British hands today!

[DoodleDawg]

And this is exactly why all the British forts in 1776 still remain in British hands today!

Is that what you believe? Have you really never heard of the Treaty of Paris?

[FLT-bird]

And this is exactly why all the British forts in 1776 still remain in British hands today! Derp! He walked right into that one. Notice how you can post a bunch of tax experts and a bunch of newspapers on all sides at the time saying one thing and he just responds with "no they weren't! Your posts are BS!" Hilarious.

[BroJoeK]

Doodledawg: " Eminent domain doesn't allow states to seize federal property any more than it allows the federal government to seize state property."

DiogenesLamp: "And this is exactly why all the British forts in 1776 still remain in British hands today!"

FLT-bird: "Derp! He walked right into that one."

DiogenesLamp: "DoodleDawg is a "she", and yes she did! :) "

Well... first, DoodleDawg's gender is neither stipulated, nor a fact in evidence, nor relevant here.
So "he" is acceptable unless requested otherwise.

Second, DoodleDawg's point is totally valid and DiogenesLamp's response a total non-sequitur.
When governments seize properties from other governments those are acts of aggression & war having nothing lawful to do with "eminent domain".

Third, Lost Causers' biggest problem with their legalistic claims of "eminent domain" at Fort Sumter & dozens of other Federal properties is simply that no actual Confederate claimed it at the time.
In no case was any pretense of legal process followed before seizing Federal properties -- many even before a state declared secession, nothing remotely legal about it.
So those claims we see on these threads of "eminent domain" are just Democrats doing what Democrats do -- inventing cr*p out of thin air to explain the inexplicable and defend the indefensible.