“Wolves Have A Constitution:” Continuities in Indigenous Self-Government

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“Wolves Have A Constitution:” Continuities in Indigenous Self-Government

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This article is about constitutionalism as an Indigenous tradition. The political idea of constitutionalism is the idea that the process of governing is itself governed by a set of foundational laws or rules. There is ample evidence that Indigenous nations in North America—and in Australia and New Zealand as well—were in this sense constitutionalists. Customary law, cultural norms, and shared protocols provided well understood guidelines for key aspects of governance by shaping both personal ...

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2015-01-01

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Stephen Cornell

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International Indigenous Policy Journal

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http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1243&context=iipj

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self-government / governance / constitutionalism / Indigenous nations / tradition / customary law / Political science / Social Sciences

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