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What land did the States own prior to the federal government establishing the boundaries for the States? Are you trying to say that the Fed did not own the forts, the garrisons, etc., established by the Fed? National Parks are not owned by the Fed?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Ordinance_of_1785http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.
What land did the States own prior to the federal government establishing the boundaries for the States? Are you trying to say that the Fed did not own the forts, the garrisons, etc., established by the Fed? National Parks are not owned by the Fed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Ordinance_of_1785
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html
"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.
