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Government must be established and laws provided, before lands can be separately appropriated, and their owner protected in his possession. Till then, the property is in the body of the nation, and they, or their chief as trustee, must grant them to individuals, and determine the conditions of the grant."

Excellent. Reality is not what some imagine. This idea of public property is at the core of many of our arguments on FR. Probably 99% don't 'get' it. Some will wave the Constitution like a magic wand while displaying the 9th amendment and ignoring the 4th and 5th Amendments, which doesn't help at all.

Keep chipping away at it. Now and then a light will go on, and maybe the 99% will drop to 98%.

Perhaps if it had wheels.

Reality is not what some imagine. This idea of public property is at the core of many of our arguments on FR. Probably 99% don't 'get' it.

Yes, many narcissisticly assume that property rights are a given, and government only exists to protect those rights without any obligation on their part to contribute to the community which forms that government.

Jefferson refutes that assumption much more eloquently than I.