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·沃克的序言

这本《后记》认为，尼尔·沃克强大而宽泛的“主权框架”以不可避免的气氛宣扬主权，这冒着错误认识到对主权本身的正当主张的风险。该框架以一种掩盖了对主权强制性要素及其在物理空间中扎根的批判关注的方式，将宪政主义中的主权包裹起来。我认为，扩大宪法化的主权框架的作用会减少，吸收或排挤其他表达方式，以概念化政治人物与居民所处地之间以及人与人之间的关系，特别是在土著法律和政治理论中进行考察的人。主权的构架也可能会取消其主张，因此主权的明显过剩掩盖了深远而合理的不兼容性，紧张局势，