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Worcester v. Georgia, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land. Although Pres. Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the ruling, the decision helped form the basis for most subsequent law in the United States regarding Native Americans.
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5 Νοε 2018 · Worcester and his group of missionaries were tried, convicted, and sentenced to four years hard labor for violating Georgia’s license and oath law. Worcester appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that Georgia’s law violated the U.S. Constitution .
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.
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.
27 Απρ 2004 · In the court case Worcester v. Georgia , the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers. Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral ...
In Worcester v. Georgia (1832) 31 U.S. 515, the sovereignty of Indian tribes as "distinct, independent, political communities" qualified to exercise the powers of self-government was first definitively recognized.
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.
