Elixir
Made in America
So your argument is contingent on proving that the enforcing the Constitution of the United States faced no contradiction or hindrance in its execution? Hoo boy do you ever have some reading to do. No, "uncontroversial" is not a term anyone would ever have thought to apply to American law.You can't differentiate right of conquest from result of conquest, but in the case of North America, "they" (Europeans) did (and do) spell out rights in laws that they can cite without meaningful contradiction and enforce without significant hindrance. That, as a result (aka a right) of conquest.
Did I use that term? I think I said "without meaningful contradiction". When contradiction arose that WAS meaningful (oft recalled as The War of Northern Aggression even today), further violent conquest was required to re-impose "the law".
the Haudenosaunee, Cherokee Nation, Sioux Confederacy etc recognize its [the US Government's] authority over the United States, but not over their own internal affairs,
Those entities were conquered, and opted for the limited self-rule offered, as the only alternative to complete annihilation.
Nor have any conceded the legality of US seizure of their former places of habitation.
Yet the vast majority of (white) Americans are blissfully unaware of that fact. Some even wonder why "we gave" the indians all that land.
if trying to impose something causes a war, I do not think a reasonable person would describe that as "without meaningful contradiction."
I guess it's "meaningful" in some way if a repeat of the first genocidal violence is required for the conquerors to maintain supremacy. But if the uprising is quelled, its meaning to the conquering population is minimal as soon as the dust settles. That it remains meaningful to the conquered population is only incidental trivia to the conquerors.
I don't think many white Americans give a shit whether the Lakota Sioux get all upset about their land being desecrated by oil pipelines, or if they get shot, starved or poisoned for protecting it. As long as white people don't fear getting scalped by a raiding party in the middle of the night, it's not "meaningful" to them.
I don't mean to downplay or ignore the seriousness with which First Nations people take the destruction of their culture, the theft of their land and the genocide visited upon their populations, of course. But they are not (at least not yet) the victors in the story of conquest.