[2]» Essentially, they accept the position that
unclaimed lands are truly unowned and can be claimed by anyone.
As such, it is only right / moral / ethical to claim
the unclaimed land once consent has been gathered from everyone on the planet.
The purist argues that since all people have rights to all land originally, that
unclaimed land is not owned by no one, but by everyone.
Never mind that Locke saw this principle applying only to
unclaimed land («from the common state of nature») and not to existing property.
Not exact matches
The newest micronation on our list, Liberland was founded in April 2015 on an
unclaimed parcel of
land near the Croatian - Serbian border.
Revenue from
unclaimed deposits could bring in $ 100 - $ 180 million per year and would support curbside recycling programs, farmland preservation, parks, open space and other programs to protect our
land, air and water.
It will be a declaration, in my deliberate judgment, that the sovereign power of the people of the United States and Union must hereafter remain incapable of action over territory to which their rights in full dominion have been asserted with the most rigorous authority, and bow to a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, unacknowledged by any department of the government, denied by all through all time,
unclaimed till now, and now declared to have been called into exercise not by any change in our Constitution, the laws of the Union or the States, but preexistent and paramount over the supreme law of the
land.