The Colorado doctrine : water rights, corporations, and distributive justice on the American frontier
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The Colorado doctrine : water rights, corporations, and distributive justice on the American frontier
（Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference）
Yale University Press, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-219) and index
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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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