Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1831-03-18

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Marshall, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court. — This bill is brought by the Cherokee nation, praying an injunction to restrain the state of Georgia from the execution of certain laws of that state, which, as is alleged, go directly to annihilate the Cherokee as a political society, and to seize for the use of Georgia, the lands of the nation which have been assured to them by…

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