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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Bust of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, by F. Winter, 1886. In the collection of the Dorset Museum, Dorchester. "A land without a people for a people without a land" is a widely cited phrase associated with the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Its historicity and significance are a ...
After the creation of the Oregon territory in 1848, the US government had passed the most generous land distribution bill in US history. The Oregon Land Donation Act of 1850 had many negative effects on Indigenous people as well as Black people in the Pacific Northwest. Not only did the act use the land taken away from the Indigenous people in ...
Nineteenth-century Westerners associated peoples or nations with territory, and so to be a land without a people did not imply that the land was without people, only that it was without a national political character." Adam Garfinkle gives the same opinion of 19th-century users of the slogan (without mentioning Keith in particular).
The later inclosure acts (1604 onwards) removed the cottars' right to any land: "before the Enclosures Act the cottager was a farm labourer with land and after the Enclosures Act the cottager was a farm labourer without land". [27] [better source needed] The bordars and cottars did not own their draught oxen or horses.
In the United States, a plat (/ p l æ t / [1] or / p l ɑː t /) [2] (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bearing between section corners, sometimes including topographic or ...
There is a country without a nation; and God now in his wisdom and mercy, directs us to a nation without a country." [25] Shaftesbury himself was echoing the sentiments of Alexander Keith, D.D. [26] In 1901, in the New Liberal Review, Zangwill wrote that "Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country". [24] [27]
The word derives from Old French demeine, ultimately from Latin dominus, "lord, master of a household" – demesne is a variant of domaine. [3] [4]The word barton, which is historically synonymous to demesne and is an element found in many place-names, can refer to a demesne farm: it derives from Old English bere and ton ().
In modern times, people of indigenous descent have made lawsuits to regain lands. The ruling is that if an Indian group doesn't meet the criteria of being a tribe, then the land won't be given back. In Montoya v. United States, the idea of what qualifies as an Indian was revisited and thus a definition of tribe was ruled. It was ruled that a ...