If you want to state an opinion and make an argument, you must begin with a set of facts. Mr Roger is providing facts in the law that have been in operation since the country was founded. My ancestors received federal land grants for Revolutionary War service in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia. These lands were ceded to the Federal Government when these states entered the Union. The states did this in exchange for the Federal Government assuming our Revolutionary War debt. Sales of these lands helped retire that debt.
Stomping your feet is not going to change those facts. It’s all part of American history and anyone can learn about it.
I really don’t consider quoting the Constitution to be stomping my feet, but if that’s what you think it is, then so be it. In fact, I thought the post was fairly well reasoned and polite.
Now, as to the arrangement you mentioned, it is also mentioned in the Northwest Ordinance. I imagine that same understanding is what encouraged states to cede territory to the Confederate government operating under the articles of Confederation. I say that because the Ordinance preceded the US Constitution.
I’d be curious about dating all of this about Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia.
Nonetheless, it still is not reasonable to see the Federal Government as the property owner of all unclaimed land. They are stewards of it on behalf of the people, the first branch of our government.
“We the People of the United (sovereign nation-)States in order to form a more perfect union “
First branch of Government: the People
Second branch of Government: the States