The Sources of the Colorado Appropriation Doctrine
The Sources of the Colorado Appropriation Doctrine
This chapter presents a new account of Colorado's mining district laws, generally considered to be the font of the state's appropriation doctrine. It explores the ideological background of, and precedents for, both the miners' codes and the appropriation doctrine. It argues that the Colorado rules advanced certain ideals of distributive justice, as part of a broader nineteenth-century agrarian reform movement in American law and politics.
Keywords: Colorado, mining district laws, distributive justice, agrarian reform, American law
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