USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -One year later, however, in Worcester v. 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: -Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1 (1831), was a United States Supreme Court case. The Cherokee Nation sought a federal injunction against laws passed by the U.S. state of Georgia depriving them of rights within its boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chief Justice John Marshall wrote, “The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community occupying its own territory in which the laws of Georgia can have no force. The whole intercourse between the United States and this nation is, by our Constitution and laws, vested in the government of the United States.”

Detailed explanation-4: -The Court found that the Cherokee Nation was a state in the sense that it was a “political society, separated from others, capable of managing its own affairs and governing itself.” Treaties and laws governing the relationship between the U.S. and the Cherokee Nation supported this conclusion.