Worcester v georgia impact. The proceeding set the. Unfortunately the case did not stop. Georgia began on february 20th of 1832.
The supreme court refused to rule on whether the georgia state laws were applicable to the cherokee people. Supreme court on march 3 1832 held 51 that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on native american land. The state of georgia.
He believed the state of georgia over stepped their boundaries for they did not maintain jurisdiction to enforce the law within the native land. 6 pet 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. The state of georgia 31 us.
The case was filed by worcester who claimed that his familys forced removal was a violation of his constitutional rights. The case of worcester vgeorgia was a very peculiar but interesting legal battle that occurred in the united states between february and march of 1832. The political autonomy native american tribes have today is based in part on the precedent of worcester v.
Marshall john and supreme court of the united states. The opinion is most famous for its dicta which laid out the. In the late 1820s the georgia legislature passed laws designed to force the cherokee people off their historic land.
This case reestablished the sovereignty of the cherokee nation and other native american nations as nations separate from the united states and exempt from the laws of the states of the union that may surround their territory. The georgia government recognized that worcester was influential in the cherokee resistance movement and enacted a law that prohibited white persons from residing within the cherokee nation without permission from the state. Andrew jackson refused to enforce the ruling the decision helped form the basis for most subsequent law in the united states regarding native americans.
Georgia is a landmark decision because it supported subsequent laws pertaining to the autonomy of native american lands in the united states.