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  2. State ownership - Wikipedia

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    A house number plaque marking state property in Riga, Latvia. State ownership, also called public ownership or government ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, property, or enterprise by the national government of a country or state, or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party. [1]

  3. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government. [1] Pursuant to the Property Clause of the United States Constitution (Article 4, section 3, clause 2), Congress has the power to retain, buy, sell, and regulate federal lands, such as by limiting cattle grazing on them.

  4. Public domain (land) - Wikipedia

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    The government promised soldiers land in lieu of pay. After the Revolution, the new federal government owned all the public land except that within the 13 original colonies and a few non-original states. The land owned by the government was called The Public Domain. The Land Act of 1785 gave land warrants to the soldiers to fulfill the promise ...

  5. Thousands of homes on $1 land: The new housing crisis ... - AOL

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    The vast majority of buildable public land in dense, urban areas is owned by city and county governments. While the federal government doesn't have much prime, vacant land in cities to devote to ...

  6. The Government Took a Developer's Land and Gave It to a ... - AOL

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    It can put some teeth in Kennedy's supposed limitation by ruling that "the Public Use Clause require[s] something more than minimal rational-basis review when the government takes land from one ...

  7. Public land state - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, a private land state (also called a non-public land state or a state land state) [1] is a U.S. state in which the federal government is not the original land-owner. [2] In public land states, the federal government owns a significant proportion of the state's public lands; in private land states, federal land holdings are generally ...

  8. Public lands in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, governmental entities at all levels- including townships, cities, counties, states, and the federal government- all manage land which are referred to as either public lands or the public domain. The federal government owns 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States.

  9. A budget boost to payments for state-owned land will ... - AOL

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    Pennsylvania makes payments in lieu of taxes for state forests, parks, and game lands. As part of the finished budget, counties will benefit from the first rate increase in years.