Federal Ownership of Land

This Land Is Not Your Land
by Laurence Vance

This land is your land, this land is my land,
From California, to the New York Island,
From the redwood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters,
This land was made for you and me.

          Woody Guthrie, "Thi

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Equal Footing - Federal Lands

In the summer of 1787 the Second Continental Congress wrote what is known as the Northwest Ordinance. It was in this document that the doctrine of equal footing was established.

One of the provisions in the Northwest Ordinance was to establish the po

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The Northwest Ordinance

Northwest Ordinance; July 13, 1787

An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio.

 

Section 1. Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of

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Ownership of the Western Lands

1828 Resolution     Click Here

The Four Whys     Click Here

America Lands Council     Click Here

Where is the Line ?    Click Here

This Land is Not Your Land       Click Here

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Federally Owned Property

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Federal Lands and Jurisdiction by Stephen Pratt

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