Over the rights of westerners who should have more local input the monuments were too big so they needed to be smaller. What was the decision for expanding the money men at the time. President clinton expanded one and president obama created the other. Both were created under the antiquity sack which is a centuriesold law that allows president s to unilaterally protect areas of cultural or scientific significance. Both president clinton and obama said these are areas that have cultural meaning for native american tribes who lived there. They have special scientific and archaeological qualities. So they created them as National Monuments. With the previous president s applied the antiquity sect, should they apply versus others . This is been used by both parties throughout history. President obama used at the most. He created the most National Monuments. President Teddy Roosevelt signed it into law. He was the first to use it. Will continue their conversation about this act yesterday. I