JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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The Supreme court had no power
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Most of the native Americans had already been removed from Georgia
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The Cherokee refused to negotiate with Jackson
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The Constitution did not guarantee rights to Native Americans
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In other words, in the case of Worcester v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Native American tribes were considered ‘nations, ’ and could not be subjected to state law.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to the decision rendered by Chief Justice John Marshall, this meant that Georgia had no rights to enforce state laws in its territory. President Andrew Jackson refused to uphold the ruling of this case and directed the expulsion of the Cherokee nation.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.