Shadow nations : tribal sovereignty and the limits of legal pluralism /

"American Indian tribes have long been recognized as 'domestic, independent nations' within the United States, with powers of self-government that operate within the tribes' sovereign territories. Yet over the years, Congress and the Supreme Court have steadily eroded these triba...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duthu, N. Bruce
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 a 4500
001 821067756
003 OCoLC
005 20181019111928.0
008 121207s2013 enk b 001 0 eng
010 |a 2012048896 
020 |a 9780199735860 
020 |a 0199735867 
040 |a DLC  |b eng  |c DLC  |d YDX  |d YDXCP  |d CDX  |d GZL  |d CGU  |d OCLCF  |d OCLCQ  |d CUH  |d UX0 
042 |a pcc 
043 |a n-us--- 
049 |a VLAM 
050 0 0 |a KF8205  |b .D88 2013 
100 1 |a Duthu, N. Bruce 
245 1 0 |a Shadow nations :  |b tribal sovereignty and the limits of legal pluralism /  |c N. Bruce Duthu 
260 |a Oxford, UK ;  |a New York :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c ©2013 
300 |a xi, 234 pages ;  |c 22 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index 
505 0 |a Tribal sovereignty and legal pluralism -- In the shadows of the nation-state -- Pluralism and liberalism : testing the limits of a measured separatism for tribal nations -- Of guardians and wards : the Indian as Homo Sacer -- Structure and relationship : the constitutional dimensions of federal and tribal power in Indian country -- Coming full circle : (Re)building institutions to advance the ethos of legal pluralism 
520 |a "American Indian tribes have long been recognized as 'domestic, independent nations' within the United States, with powers of self-government that operate within the tribes' sovereign territories. Yet over the years, Congress and the Supreme Court have steadily eroded these tribal powers. In some respects, the erosion of tribal powers reflects the legacy of an imperialist impulse to constrain or eliminate any political power that may compete with the state. These developments have moved the nation away from its early commitments to a legally plural society - in other words, the idea that multiple nations and their legal systems could co-exist peacefully in shared territories. Shadow nations argues for redirecting the trajectory of tribal-federal relations to better reflect the formative ethos of legal pluralism that operated in the nation's earliest years. From an ideological standpoint, this means that we must reexamine several long-held commitments. One is to legal centralism, the view that the nation-state and its institutions are the only legitimate sources of law. Another is to liberalism, the dominant political philosophy that undergirds our democratic structures and situates the individual, not the group or a collective, as the bedrock moral unit of society. From a constitutional standpoint, establishing more robust expressions of tribal sovereignty will require that we take seriously the concerns of citizens, tribal and non-tribal alike, who demand that tribal governments operate consistently with basic constitutional values. From an institutional standpoint, these efforts will require a new, flexible and adaptable institutional architecture that is better suited to accommodating these competing interests"--Jacket 
650 0 |a Indians of North America  |x Government relations 
650 0 |a Indians of North America  |x Legal status, laws, etc 
650 0 |a Legal polycentricity  |z United States 
650 0 |a Sovereignty 
650 0 |a Federally recognized Indian tribes 
907 |a .b2209159 
998 |a third 
999 |c 105165 
852 |a Law Library  |b Third Floor  |h KF8205 .D88 2013  |p 33940003705439