This Afterword argues that Neil Walker’s powerful and expansive “sovereignty frame” renders sovereignty with an air of inevitability that risks misrecognizing justifiable claims against sovereignty itself. The frame wraps sovereignty in constitutionalism in ways that gloss over critical attention to both sovereignty’s coercive element and its groundedness in physical space. I argue that the effect of an expansively constitutionalized sovereignty frame reduces, absorbs, or crowds out articulations of other ways to conceptualize relations among and between people in polities and the places in which they are grounded, most notably those examined in Indigenous legal and political theory. The framing of sovereignty may also serve to foreclose its claiming, so that an apparent surplus of sovereignty masks deep and justifiable incompatibilities, tensions, and genuine contestations that cannot be explained as an excess or surfeit.

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盈余还是投降？尼尔·沃克前言的后记

这篇后记认为，尼尔·沃克强大而广阔的“主权框架”使主权带有一种不可避免的气氛，可能会误认对主权本身的正当要求。该框架以宪政主义的方式将主权包裹起来，掩盖了对主权的强制性因素及其在物理空间中的基础性的批判性关注。我认为，广泛宪法化的主权框架的影响减少、吸收或排挤了其他方式来概念化政体中的人和他们之间的关系以及他们所立足的地方，最值得注意的是那些在土著法律和政治理论中检验过的方式. 主权的框架也可能有助于排除它的主张，因此主权的明显过剩掩盖了深刻和合理的不相容、紧张、