| | The New American - History of Federal Land Control - January 18, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The history of this gigantic fraud is known and understood by few Americans, and it is precisely this lack of knowledge which has permitted radical environmental organizations in collusion with the federal government to frame the debate over use, ownership, and protection of public domain. |
 | | Any discussion of government (public domain) land, private property rights, and their historical development in the United States must be prefaced with the observation that it was the promise of private land ownership farms, businesses, homes that drew early colonists to the shores of America. |
 | | Six states did not claim Western Lands and were obviously agitated when the Continental Congress, in an attempt to recruit military volunteers, promised land as a bounty to be apportioned among the states in the same proportion as other war expenses. |
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