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Worcester vs Georgia
was a case that the Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and said that Georgia had a criminal statute that prohibited non-Indians from being present on Indian lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.
denied the right of the Cherokee to bring a suit against the state. However, a year later, in a more properly formulated case, Worcester v. Georgia, the court ruled that the laws of Georgia were invalid in Cherokee land.
BACKGROUND:
Georgia created a law to remove Cherokee from all of their historic lands
The Cherokee Nation was seeking a federal injunction against laws that were passed by the state of Georgia.
*He was doing something positive
* that the state could not maintain the prosecution because the statute violated the Constitution
Georgia's Arguments
*He didn't have a license
*He had to take the oath to support and defend the constitution and laws of the state of Georgia which he didn't.
John Ross a Cherokee chief led Cherokees straight to Washington to resolve the disputes.
Worcester vs. Georgia
deprived the Cherokee Nation of receiving basic human rights within their own tribal boundaries.
These laws were very hateful
Against
The court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a "distinct community" with self-government in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, which led to the establishment that the national government had authority in Indian affairs, not individual states.
Impact
It was their land that hey were letting them borrow
Georgia's Pov
The indians were right Georgia didn't like them
They were using historical lands that could bring in revenue
Both of these cases matter because they led toward the Trail of Tears and showed the country the wrongs that these innocent people faced for basically living
They are similar because the both have to do with infractions of Native americans rights in Georgia.