United States: Tribal Constitutions And Native Sovereignty

United States: Tribal Constitutions And Native Sovereignty Robert J. Miller, 2011   More than 565 Indigenous tribal governments exercise extensive sovereign and political powers within the United States today. Only about 230 of the native communities that created these governments, however, have chosen to adopt written constitutions to define and control the political powers of their governments. Many observers would no doubt ask how a government can function without a written constitution...

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