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Rottweiler spoke and it was so.....
"Not so.
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Before a territory could become a State all vacant land would be ceded to the USA. Then people could pay surveyors fees, about 1/2 a silver dollar per acre(as much as 4.50 silver a acre if somebody just wants to mine it), and get anywhere from 80 to 360 acres granted to them. All because the USA were obeying there constitutional limits and were not in the land business. These patents FALL UNDER TREATY LAW and no one can F$#% with them, not even the SCOTUS. They are international treaties between sovereigns, the President and the patentee and were even higher law than the constitution. These lands could ONLY be taken for insurrection and NEVER for ANY taxes or DEBT unless the patent was involved and title was changed. There has never been one single case of land being taken away when a properly prepared land patent was in place.
Consequently, I strongly disagree with your opinion. The original patentee did not buy the land, it was granted or given away for a valuable consideration or thought, he simply paid surveyor's fees. For example, Lord Baltimore received a huge grant from the King of England and after the revolutionary war he still retained his property even though England were losers. Only a total violater of international law would take lands away that were granted by treaty.
1. God's Law
2. Common Law
3. Law of Commerce(Old Jewish Law), Treaty Law, Law of Nations, UCC.
4. Constitutional Law
5.The rest is the garbage froth. (Statutes, ordinances, etc.).
The railroads recieved massive amounts of patents on either side of it's tracks for connecting the oceans by rail. People would go west and get a patent and sell the land right away for a pittance to lumber companies. Land was plentiful and so were crooks, just like today, but there were a few god fearing men that held sway, the people of the Reformation.
The confusion arises because people do not know what a properly prepared land grant is."
Good ,, no EXCELLENT,, Rottweiler..
Jerry.
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