Wow it looks like the government owns almost all of Nevada. How did that happen?
***How did that happen?***
There are some good and informational comments after the article.
Worth doing some research for dates and reasons for the Federal land grabs. What happens when States have rights but no land.
Starting with the dates of Statehood etc., Go for it K!!!!
A little thing called the "Mexican-American War."
“Wow it looks like the government owns almost all of Nevada. How did that happen?”
There is a systematic legal process being carried out by the federal government, via the BLM, to force ranchers off their land.
Yes. Bundy doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on. It is legal in America to systematically kill the rancher and farming lifestyles that built this once great country.
It was also entirely legal for the Brits to raise every single tax...and quarter every single troops, they hoisted upon their Colonial subjects.
Any horses’ azz can say with precise correctness that Bundy’s actions are illegal. But, at the same time, he is absolutely correct and right in what he did.
“...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...,” Declaration of Independence..., Thomas Jefferson
Uh...
Not many people moved there and tried to buy it from the gummint in the early days??
And now the gummint don't wanna sell any of it?
The US Government obtained the lad at the end of the US Mexico war in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1846. That was before Nevada became a state 1864. At that time, Congress required certain inclusions in the State constitution before being accepted as a state. One of those inclusions is the state ceding forever any lands not already disbursed (to the state or public) as being US Governmnent lands. It is in the Nevada constitution under the section Ordinance.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NvConst.html