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Georgia, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court in March 1832 held that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land. President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the ruling, but the decision helped form the basis for most subsequent Indian law in the U.S.
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The ambiguous phrases which follow the grant of power to the United States were so construed by the States of North Carolina and Georgia as to annul the power itself. The discontents and confusion resulting from these conflicting claims produced representations to Congress, which were referred to a committee, who made their report in 1787.
Also includes pocket map cover with index of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia counties, showing population schedules of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia by county, according to data from the fifth census of the United States, 1830.
Georgia, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832), was a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.
19 Οκτ 2024 · When Georgia’s law prohibiting non-Cherokees from living on Cherokee land without a state license took effect in 1830, Worcester and other missionaries refused to apply for licenses and protested the law. Worcester and the others were arrested, convicted, and sentenced to four years’ hard labor.
In an opinion delivered by Chief Justice John Marshall, the Court held that the Georgia act, under which Worcester was prosecuted, violated the Constitution, treaties, and laws of the United States.
5 Νοε 2018 · Worcester, and a group of missionaries, did missionary work on Cherokee land in violation of Georgia law. The Georgia law required that “white persons” only enter Cherokee land with a license and after having sworn a loyalty oath to Georgia.
