1. Aboriginals
Introduction United States law has used the doctrine of "discovery" to justify the takeover of Indian people and territory. ... International law accepted that there were a range of political entities, not simply the single modern model of the sovereign state. ... The United States Constitution of 1787 is largely silent on Indians because the tribes were still outside the new constitutional and legal order of the United States. ... United States law in a brilliantly ambiguous phrase, referred to the tribes as "dependent domestic nations." ... The federal government had an...
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