Bioregional allegiance can displace loyalty to the settler nation-state

Evidence

If citizenship is a matter of shared beliefs, then I believe in the democracy of species. If citizenship means an oath of loyalty to a leader, then I choose the leader of the trees. If good citizens agree to uphold the laws of the nation, then I choose natural law, the law of reciprocity, of regeneration, of mutual flourishing. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 616

Categorization

• XREF: Directly pays off ch40’s Maple Nation citizenship and the Bill of Responsibilities vs Bill of Rights frame; also gives the legal-systems course a concrete citizen-of-a-watershed concept. — connects to: Bioregional spiritual geography forgets the transnational harms America causes — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 730
• QUESTION: Could the ‘laws of the nation’ framing map onto actual watershed-compact or bioregional-governance legal theory worth chasing?