[hobbes1]

Do you honestly mean to allege, that without The Louisiana Purchase, the people of said French Province would have been free to Vote themselves into the union??????


Hardly.The existing state of freedom was PURCHASED, by the Union, From France, that surely would not have given it up for the whim of it's inhabitants.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"Do you honestly mean to allege, that without The Louisiana Purchase, the people of said French Province would have been free to Vote themselves into the union??????
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It doesn;t matter who purchased the land. The state is a sovereign government and territory all to itself. Upon creation of the state, the fed is subordinate to the state. The fed may own land they hold title to, but they also sold enough land to the people for them to create the state.

The fed owns large tracks of colorado land, do they, then own Colorado? Keep in mind, Colorado residents also own more than than the feds.

Show in the US Constitution where the feds may own land and, therefore, gives them title to the state.

[PatrioticAmerican]

If a state may not leave the union, may I?