Broken Landscape - Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution

Informationen zum Autor Professor of Law, University of South Dakota Klappentext Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding. Zusammenfassung Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: The Early Encounter 1. Introduction: A New Challenge to Old Assumptions 2. Early Contact: From Colonial Encounters to the Article of Confederation 3. Second Opportunity: The Structure and Architecture of the Constitution 4. The Marshall Trilogy: Foundational but Not Fully Constitutional? 5. Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: The Birth of Plenary Power, Incorporation, and an Extraconstitutional Regime Part Two: Individual Indians and the Constitution 6. Elk v. Wilkins: Exclusion, Inclusion, and the Ambiguities of Citizenship 7. Indians and the First Amendment: The Illusion of Religious Freedom? Part Three: The Modern Encounter 8. Indian Law Jurisprudence in the Modern Era: A Common Law Approach Without Constitutional Principle 9. International Law Perspective: A New Model of Indigenous Nation Sovereignty? 10. Conclusion: Imagination, Translation, and Constitutional Convergence

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• Authors: Frank Pommersheim, Frank (Professor of Law Pommersheim, Frank (University of South Dakota Sch Pommersheim, Pommersheim Frank
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9780199915736
• ISBN: 978-0-19-991573-6
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; USA, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, Indigenous Peoples, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, LAW / Indigenous Law & Legal Systems, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, Relating to Native American people / First Americans