Lands belonging to the nation, which, it seems, even royal prerogative at this day in England cannot save from taxation, are in our country, under express provisions of compact, early established, exempted from this burden.
Sumner notes that in the United States, national lands are exempt from taxation under specific agreements, unlike in England.
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