Frank Pommersheim

Broken Landscape

Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780199915736
• ISBN-10: 0199915733
• Artikelnr.: 34553693

Autorenporträt

Professor of Law, University of South Dakota

Inhaltsangabe

* 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