International: Indigenous Rights, Modern Political Concepts, And The State

International: Indigenous Rights, Modern Political Concepts, And The State Jacob T. Levy, 2011   This paper considers the relationship of indigenous rights to four foundational principles of modern political theory: sovereignty, the nation, property, and constitutionalism. All took their familiar intellectual forms as the European state was crystallizing – and as European states were embarking on their imperial projects around the world. All were reshaped by both the development of the...

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