Patrick H. Bellringer

Have you ever asked why----? Why is it that our Constitution for the united states of America states that our federal government has two basic responsibilities to the states, one, to protect our shores from foreign invasion, and two, to deliver the mail; yet we have scores of federal government departments and hundreds of

federal agencies? Our Constitution restricts our federal government to a land area of only ten square miles or six thousand and four hundred acres called George Washington’s D.C. or District of Columbia. Why does our federal government have an area of ten miles square or one hundred square miles called Washington, D.C. and have buildings and airports and highways and properties all over the sovereign state of Virginia as well? Why does our federal government have buildings and airports and highways and military installations and parks and wildlife refuges and monuments and forests and reservations and Indian reservations and courts and banks and tax offices and hospitals and cemeteries and munitions plants, etc. in the sovereign states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming? Why does our federal government lay claim to the majority of the land of some of our western sovereign states? I thought the “fedsâ€