The Foundational Principles of the Warlpiri, Yolngu, and Pintupi Constitutional Orders

Chapter Six identifies, compares, and discusses the three legal orders’ foundational principles that underpin and bind each of the three constitutional orders into a structural whole in their own respective fashion. Those foundational principles define the responsibilities and accountabilities of leaders, and the exercise of legal and political power. They inform the three orders’ systems of social organisation, maintain balance within the three legal orders’ social arenas, and are direct expressions of values that stem from the lifeworld beneath each constitutional order.