The settler colonial foundations of modern democratic thought -- Federalism and Empire -- From colonial dependence to imperial equality -- The coloniality of constituent power -- Settler Colonialism and Democratic Culture -- Colonial dispossession and the settler social state -- Manifest Destiny and the safety valve of colonization -- Slavery and the empire of free soil -- Unsettling Democracy -- William Apess and the paradox of settler sovereignty -- Decolonizing the democratic tradition.
