| dc.description.abstract | This thesis tracks the development of common right concerning livestock grazing, from legal codification in England, through the colonization of America and into the creation of the vast grazing commons administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the western United States. By following landmark legal decisions and legislation, the development from manorial legacy in England, to natural law infused legislation in the early United States, it is demonstrated that the current BLM grazing programs are not only a grazing common, with a distinctly unique form of common right, but also result of the post-colonial evolution of commons in the United States. | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Enclosure, American Rangeland, Bureau of Land Management, Common Right, Property Right, Cattle Kingdom, Commons, American Enclosure, Colonial land tenure, Land Tenure, Public Domain, Labour Theory of Property, Public Land Policy, Public Policy, Federal land management, Cliven Bundy, Open Field Agriculture, Manorialism, Legal History, American Revolution, Agrarianism, | |
