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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.
5 Νοε 2018 · A group of white missionaries, which included Samuel Worcester, were doing missionary work in Cherokee territory in the State of Georgia. The group was not only doing religious missionary work but was also giving the Cherokee advice on how to resist Georgia state laws.
The Case. Georgia passed a law meant to stop Worcester and other missionaries from helping the Cherokee and to establish the state’s authority over the Cherokee Nation. The law made it a crime for any non-Indian to be on Cherokee Indian lands without getting a permit from the governor of Georgia.
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.
27 Απρ 2004 · On March 12, 1831, Georgia authorities arrested Worcester, Butler, and several other missionaries and teachers for violating the new law. A Georgia judge released Worcester when his lawyers argued that he served as federal postmaster at New Echota and was therefore in the Cherokee Nation under authority of the federal government.
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.
