Where does the constitution give the federal government the right to seize land from the states?
According to the Constitution, the feds have control over only Washington, D.C., territories, and military garrisons. That’s it. And when territories become states, they are not supposed to cede land to the feds for “national parks” or “monuments” or playgrounds, or anything. They enter with the “full rights and privileges of any state”. The Antiquities Act is a direct attack on the Constitutional rules, and has been used not only to grab lands and control states through federal budgetary grants, but also to play cozy with politically connected special interests like Riady’s Lippo and Dianne Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blume.
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Trump Exec. Order Reviews Unconstitutional Federal Land Grabs
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