USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Marshall lived another nine years, during which time he won over Jefferson’s political successor, the states’ rights partisan Andrew Jackson. Marshall had initially opposed Jackson’s election to the presidency, and in the Cherokee Indians case, Worcester v.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Though President Jackson’s exact words were a bit different, the sentiment remained. Enforcing the ruling would mean not only deviating from his own ideology, but alienating a state that shared his core beliefs. So he decided to undermine the system of checks and balances and ignore the ruling.