A whole movement demanding the federal government turn over its public lands to the states, sometimes even citing the "enabling acts" as the power that gives the states right to the lands, and yet when I read Utah's enabling act, I find just the opposite. I find it says Utah forever relinquishes the right to those lands. Says the act: "That the people inhabiting said proposed State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof." What am I missing?
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