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Semblances of Sovereignty : the Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship

eBook, English, 2009
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2009
1 online resource (320 pages)
9780674020153, 0674020154
1041149272
1 Introduction; 2 The Sovereignty Cases and the Pursuit of an American Nation-State; 3 The Citizen-State: From the Warren Court to the Rehnquist Court; 4 Commonwealth and the Constitution: The Case of Puerto Rico; 5 The Erosion of American Indian Sovereignty; 6 Indian Tribal Sovereignty beyond Plenary Power; 7 Plenary Power, Immigration Regulation, and Decentered Citizenship; 8 Reconceptualizing Sovereignty: Toward a New American Narrative; Notes; Index