Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN.

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Congress acted within its Property Clause authority over federal lands to disapprove a 20-year mineral withdrawal, with no Bill of Rights infringement, no restriction on private person or property, no upward consolidation beyond the necessary federal proprietor, and no due process or takings violation.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Congress has explicit authority over federal property under Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2, the Property Clause, which grants Congress power to dispose of and make all needful rules respecting territory and other property belonging to the United States. Nullifying a Bureau of Land Management withdrawal order for 225,504 acres of National Forest System lands and restoring mineral and geothermal le…
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  Nullifying Public Land Order 7917 does not abridge speech, religion, press, assembly, or petition under the First Amendment, does not implicate the Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh, or Eighth Amendments, and effects no search, seizure, compelled testimony, or taking under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. It removes a use-restriction on federal land and permits leasing; it does not compel belief, cens…
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  This measure does not restrict what a person may do with their own person, private property, speech, labor, or belief. It governs the use of public lands owned collectively through the federal government, not private holdings, and in fact widens lawful opportunity for mineral and geothermal exploration through leasing. No private conduct is criminalized and no compelling-justification test is trig…
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  Management and disposition of federally owned National Forest System lands cannot be handled by an individual, family, county, or state acting alone, because title is held by the United States. Action by Congress is the minimum necessary level under the Tenth Amendment, and this resolution does not consolidate new power upward; it exercises existing proprietary stewardship and restores leasing aut…
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process under the Fifth Amendment, and no property is taken for public use without just compensation under the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause. The resolution alters the permitted uses of government-owned land and follows the lawful legislative process under Article I, Section 7; it provides public notice through enrollment and publica…

Sources: Congress.gov: HJRES 140 summary