In a Federal Government, both the states and the national government have authority granted to them by the people. The people have a position of superiority over both their state and national government.
Powers delegated to the national government are enumerated in Article I, Section 8 in the Constitution. All power not specifically delegated to the Central Government are reserved to the states respectively and to the people. Any power not delegated to the National Government is prohibited by the Constitution.
The National government has jurisdiction over a 10 mile square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia and the people living in Washington D.C.
The National government is only permitted to own land in the states for military forts, dockyards and needful buildings with the consent of the state's legislature. The government of the United States must pay for the land it wishes to acquire.
Public land in the states are owned by the residents of the counties collectively and should be managed by the counties and/or the states and not by the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management. We the are collectively the owners of public land and the BLM is a property manager hired by the National Government.
The management of public lands should be administered by the state legislature. The Bureau of Land Management is not a legislative body, it is a agency of un-elected bureaucrats that are not accountable to Congress, the state legislatures, or to…
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