ABSTRACT
Chapter Seven expounds, compares, and discusses the basic structure of governance of the three constitutional orders that mediate the observance, implementation, and sanctioning of Ancestral Law via the exercise of authority to interpret the law, resolve dispute and enforce the law on behalf of the community. The Chapter shows how the Warlpiri, Yolngu, and Pintupi constitutional traditions emphasise mythical legal histories that institutionally locate the three orders in the land and the kinship systems. The land is the medium for implementing and transmitting social order, while the kinship systems are crucial for structuring involvement with others via complex and interdependent networks of normative and legal relationships
