Answer: The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. Four major federal land management agencies administer 606.5 million acres of this land (as of September 30, 2018). They are the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Park Service (NPS) in the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Forest Service (FS) in the Department of Agriculture. A fifth agency, the Department of Defense (excluding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), administers 8.8 million acres in the United States (as of September 30, 2017), consisting of military bases, training ranges, and more. Together, the five agencies manage about 615.3 million acres, or 27% of the U.S. land base. Many other agencies administer the remaining federal acreage.
Explanation: Pursuant to the Property Clause of the United States Constitution (Article 4, section 3, clause 2), the Congress has the power to retain, buy, sell, and regulate federal lands, such as by limiting cattle grazing on them.
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After the restoration of 1660 of the royal domain in England, it was necessary to obtain a Royal Letter from King Charles II. The King was a Catholic supporter in a strongly Protestant England, and he approved the promise of religious freedom of the colony granted the request with the Royal Charter of 1663, joining the four settlements in the Rhode Island colony and the Providence plantations. In the following years, many persecuted groups settled in the colony, especially Quakers and Jews.The Rhode Island colony was very progressive for the time, passing laws that abolished witchcraft trials, debt imprisonment, most of the capital punishment
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Some reasons were that Native Hawaiians were against U.S. annexation, and the controversy of how US marines used force against the Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (held her at gunpoint) and also the fact that President Grover Cleveland himself was against annexation.
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the immigration and national act of 1965 also know as the Hart -celler act ,is a federal law passed by the 89th United States congress and signed into law by the president Landon B. Johnson .
