PARAGON Foundation, Inc.- Did You Know?
The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Why are land grants such an integral part of New
Mexico's land ownership systems?
In Northern New Mexico, the people
have had a direct relationship with the land
for centuries. In the last 200 hundred years or so, Indian and
Hispanic land
grants have had a profound impact on the social and economic
development of
these two cultures well into the 20th century, however, this
relationship changed
drastically in the 1900's.
From "Who Stole the Village's Common Lands?"
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What are your Fifth Amendment rights?
The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that private
property shall not be taken for public use without just
compensation. Did you
know that Presidential Executive Order 12630 supports those Fifth
Amendment
rights?
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What is eminent domain?
Eminent domain can greatly affect
what you can and cannot do with your property
and
when fighting for your property rights.
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full text.
What is the definition of easement?
An
easement
is the right to do something or the right to prevent
something over
the real property of another.
From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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full text.
Did you know that
United States can be defined three
different ways?
United States was last defined
in 1945.
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Should I hire an attorney?
That is a question
that each must answer for
themselves. However, before making
that decision, you might wish to consider the following questions and
answers.
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What exactly are public
lands?
"Public lands
are open to the sale or disposition under general laws, land to which
no claims or rights of others have attached."
Northwestern Pacific
Railroad Company
v.Wismer, C.C.A. Wash., 230 F. 591, 593 as written in "The
denotative and connotative
definitions of the phrase "Public Lands"" by Wayne E. Hage, 2003.
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What is the definition of
right of way?
A right of way is an easement or servitude over another's
land conferring a
right of
passage.
Based
on Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law.
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for full text.
What are some things that you need to know about
rights of way?
Please see Professor David Engdhal's
(Seattle University School of Law) comments
on RS 2477- Draft Regulations for Rights of Way (1994).
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort
is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his
faculties, or his possessions.
- James Madison
Your name in all capital letters says that you are a corporation and giving
up your Constitutional rights.
The federal government has no authority to make laws
within the states unless it is one of the areas authorized in the
Constitution, Article 1, Section 8.
"Every Citizen of the United States is supposed to know the law..."
Floyd Acceptances, & Wall (74 U.S. 169) 666 (1989)
"Every man is supposed to know the law. A party who makes a contract
with an officer [of the government] without having it reduced to writing is
knowingly accessory to a violation of duty on his part. Such a party aids
in the violation of the law."
Clark v. United States 95 U.S. 539 (1877)
"But this crowd that does not know [and quote and follow and use]
the law is accursed."
John 7:49, Bible NKJV
"One who turns his ear from hearing the law [God's law or man's law], even
his prayer is an abomination."
Proverbs 28:9,
Bible NKJV
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