Abstract: This paper interrogates the dualist architecture that underpins liberal democratic governance: the assumption that legitimate political authority must be vested in a territorially bounded demos, distinct from an anarchic international realm. It argues that both state-centric dualism and cosmopolitan expansions of the demos, such as the all-affected interests principle, remain tethered to a shared presupposition: the consolidation of authority within a sovereign locus. Drawing on Haudenosaunee constitutionalism and, centrally, Anishinaabeg legal-political ontology, the paper advances a relational alternative grounded in kinship, reciprocity, and cyclical temporality. While the Two Row Wampum illuminates a nation-to-nation model of bounded relational autonomy, Anishinaabeg governance destabilizes the very logic of consolidated sovereignty, reframing legitimacy as an ongoing practice of relational responsibility that includes non-human beings. The paper offers a conceptual, diagnostic account of “kinship governance” as a post-liberal orientation for democratic theory amid the emerging challenges to the liberal international order.