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The Colorado Doctrine : Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier, Hardback Book

The Colorado Doctrine : Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier Hardback

Part of the Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference series

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Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the “appropriation doctrine,” a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West.

Schorr describes how Colorado miners, irrigators, lawmakers, and judges forged a system of private property in water based on a desire to spread property and its benefits as widely as possible among independent citizens.  He demonstrates that ownership was not dictated by concerns for economic efficiency, but by a regard for social justice.

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