Mars Colony Legal Code: How Much Law Do We Take With Us?

How much law do we take with us? And whose?

It's not science fiction. Imagine if you were given the assignment to write a legal code for Mars.

Of course, you wouldn't start from scratch. But you wouldn't start with the hundred plus volumes of the New York statutes, either. So what's the minimum? Look at Alaska in 1959. Take out hunting and fishing and you know you have the minimum to run a jurisdiction.

Or the Canal Zone, which, while frozen in time, is also the minimum, with a few things subt...