JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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struck down laws created by the Georgia legislature to seize Cherokee lands.
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ruled that the U.S. government’s Indian Removal Act was unconstitutional.
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established the Indian Territory east of the Mississippi in present-day Oklahoma.
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declared that the U.S. government would honor the Cherokee Nation’s constitution.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Worcester v. Georgia, the court struck down Georgia’s extension laws. In the majority opinion Marshall wrote that the Indian nations were “distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights” and that the United States had acknowledged as much in several treaties with the Cherokees.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Impact. Worcester v. Georgia established the precedent that the federal government’s constitutional authority preempts, or overrides, state laws, and affirmed the federal government’s exclusive power to enter into treaties with other nations.