USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was sovereign. According to the decision rendered by Chief Justice John Marshall, this meant that Georgia had no rights to enforce state laws in its territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -Richard Peters gives an explanation of the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia (1831). Peters contends that the court was correct in ruling that such a case was not within the court’s legal jurisdiction since the Cherokee Nation is not an independent and foreign state.

Detailed explanation-3: -The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Court determined that the framers of the Constitution did not really consider the Indian Tribes as foreign nations but more as “domestic dependent nation[s]” and consequently the Cherokee Nation lacked the standing to sue as a “foreign” nation.

Detailed explanation-5: -In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Chief Justice John Marshall finds that the Cherokee Nation is not a foreign nation as originally defined under the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause but is instead a “domestic dependent nation, ” under the protection of the federal government.