JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Supreme Court lost their newly gained power of judicial review.
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Congress ruled that state courts had more power than federal courts.
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President Andrew Jackson ignored Supreme Court ruling and forced Cherokee off their land.
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Military was sent on extensive searches to remove all missionaries from Native lands.
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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: -Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in the majority opinion that the Constitution gave to Congress, not the states, the power to make laws that applied to the Indian tribes. Despite this clear court victory for the Cherokees, Jackson openly refused to enforce it, and the Southern states ignored it.
Detailed explanation-3: -On review of the case, the Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia ruled that because the Cherokee Nation was a separate political entity that could not be regulated by the state, Georgia’s license law was unconstitutional and Worcester’s conviction should be overturned.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is not unusual to find John Marshall lauded as the “greatest judicial advocate of Indian sovereignty."1 Three seminal Supreme Court opinions authored by him–Johnson v. McIntosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), and Worcester v.