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To: sm1th who wrote (28119)	4/12/2014 5:38:26 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 124672

Completely wrong. "War spoils" resulting in a defacto change of control from the government of Mexico to the government of the United States... does not obviate the legitimacy of all the pre-existing private ownership claims ? And, that change in control that brings the new territory under control of the U.S. also puts it under the Constitution... it doesn't enable the government to claim it somehow enables them to operate outside of the limits the Constitution imposes on our government... particularly in relation to individual rights ? The United States does not "own the land" only because of a change of government ? Instead, the change of government results in a change of the source in future LAW that will apply to the territory ? Similarly, when we kicked Great Britain's King and his government out of a newly independent America... that didn't wipe out all the private property rights of everyone in the country because of that change... suddenly re-making them and the property they'd previously held under British law... into property owned by the new government, instead of their being the property of King George III ? In this country... we are EXCEPTIONAL... precisely because we do not buy the argument that the government, of right, owns everything... including us.