Courts legally confirmed unbounded colonial power over native populations

Evidence

In a series of ensuing rulings by appeals courts the justifiability of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act of 1890 was reiterated, giving to colonial authorities the “unfettered and unlimited power to legislate for the government of and administration of justice among the native tribes in the Bechuanaland Protectorate.” This was a power deemed unmitigated by any subsequent treaty.* Tshekedi was banished from his province for a year, before being reinstated, and Phinehas McIntosh together with a close white compatriot was banished to Rhodesia for life (ironically, without the benefit of a hearing McIntosh had received from Tshekedi). — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 70

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Spanish mining law declared natives owners while they were worked to death — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 337; Colonial courts combined all government powers without separating them. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 179