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: -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: -This redesignation allowed states like Georgia to disenfranchise Native American tribes of their lands. The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the Cherokee Nation because the Cherokee Nation didn’t have control of their lands, since they were not a foreign nation with sovereignty rights.

Detailed explanation-4: -President Andrew Jackson ignored the Court’s decision in Worcester v. Georgia, but later issued a proclamation of the Supreme Court’s ultimate power to decide constitutional questions and emphasizing that its decisions had to be obeyed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the U.S. Supreme Court considered its powers to enforce the rights of Native American “nations” against the states. In Cherokee Nation, the Court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction (the power to hear a case) to review claims of an Indian nation within the United States.