The Harmon Doctrine, or the doctrine of absolute territorial sovereignty, holds that a country has absolute sovereignty over the territory and resources within its borders.

Background

The doctrine is named after U.S. Attorney General

Judson Harmon Judson Harmon (February 3, 1846February 22, 1927) was an American United States Democratic Party, Democratic politician from Ohio. He served as United States Attorney General under President Grover Cleveland and later served as the 45th governor ...

, who made a comment during the

Chamizal dispute The Chamizal dispute was an international land and boundary conflict over contested land (estimates range from ) along the Mexico–United States border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The conflict was caused by multiple ...

, a dispute between USA and Mexico over the

Rio Grande The Rio Grande ( or ) in the United States or the Río Bravo (del Norte) in Mexico (), also known as Tó Ba'áadi in Navajo language, Navajo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the Southwestern United States a ...

in 1895, in reference to international watercourses —

References

Stephen C. McCaffrey (1996)
The Harmon Doctrine One Hundred Years Later: Buried, Not Praised
36 Nat. Resources J. 965. Rahaman, M.M. (2009
'Principles of international water law: creating effective transboundary water resources management'
Int. J. Sustainable Society, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp.207–223.

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