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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which Supreme Court case is best describe by the following:1) Heard under Chief Justice John Marshall2) Concerned with the relationship between the Cherokee people and a state3) The Court ordered that Indian nations were subject to federal, not state law
A
Marbury v. Madison
B
McCulloch v. Maryland
C
Gibbons v. Ogden
D
Worcester v. Georgia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, and in the 1832 decision of Worcester v. Georgia, Chief Justice John C. Marshall articulated the roots of the federal trust doctrine and affirmed that Indian affairs was the province of federal rather than state regulation.

Detailed explanation-2: -indigenous sovereignty In the meantime, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia had made its way to the United States Supreme Court. In 1831 the court decided that indigenous peoples living within the United States were no longer independent nations and that as a domestic sovereign nation-in other words, one that depended upon…

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Describe the ruling of the Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia and Jackson’s response to it. The Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distance community in which the laws of Georgia had no force. Only the federal government had control over the Native Americans.

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