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12 Cardozo L. Rev. 959 (1990 - 1991)
The Maps of Sovereignty: A Meditation

handle is hein.journals/cdozo12 and id is 973 raw text is: THE MAPS OF SOVEREIGNTY: A MEDITATION Perry Dane * TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Sovereignty-Talk ....................................... 965 A. Sovereignty and Rights ............................ 966 B. Indian Bingo and Church Property ................. 967 C. More on Sovereignty and Rights ................... 970 D . Connections ....................................... 971 II. The State and Other Legal Orders ...................... 973 A. Of State Exclusivism ............................... 973 1. L ogic .......................................... 977 2. Experience ..................................... 979 3. The Liberal State ............................... 983 4. The Therapeutic State .......................... 985 B. Of John Marshall and the Cherokee ................ 987 C. Of Limits and Principles ........................... 991 1. Com m itm ent ................................... 992 2. D istinctiveness ................................. 993 3. G enerality ..................................... 994 4. H istory ........................................ 995 5. L and ........................................... 996 III. Other Legal Orders and the State ....................... 998 A. The W rong Roads ................................. 999 B. The Law of the Kingdom is the Law ............... 1000 C. The Law of the Land is the Law ................... 1002 IV . Conclusion ............................................. 1005 A few years ago, some students at my school formed a group to discuss Native American issues. One of their posters featured a multi- ple-choice question. I do not recall the exact words of either the ques- tion or the answers, but a paraphrase will do. The question was, how many sovereign governments are there in the United States? The first answer was one. The second answer was fifty-one. The third answer was fifty-two or fifty-three or thereabouts, adding Puerto Rico and such to the list. The fourth answer-the right answer-was a * Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School. I would like to thank Bruce Ackerman, Mirjan Damaska, Geoffrey Hazard, Tony Kronman, John Langbein, Burke Marshall, Monroe Price, Judith Resnik, and Cynthia Saltzman for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this essay.