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Originally Posted by Jerry Pitts
The answer is found in a document entitled "contracts payable in gold" see http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com...resolution.pdf
I believe it was on page 11 or 12 wherein the Congress of the United States declared that 'The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State....." |
I have read that booklet and the mentions of it in the Congressional Record. It was not the expression of Congress, nor even written up at Congressional request. A Congressman got special permission to print up this booklet at public expense because the manuscript had been sent to him by a constituent (this was a favor that was not uncommon many years ago but now very restricted) -- a retired Navy JAG lawyer who had previously written a substantial textbook on military contracts. But at that time this man was in a military nursing home and died a few years after this booklet was published. It represents only his own interpretations, and the Congress did not even know of its content when it allowed this booklet to be printed as a favor.