History of the United States I / Unit 17 USH1 2404 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Court Against the Cherokee
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The idea
The Cherokee cases of eighteen thirty-one and eighteen thirty-two tested whether a Court ruling binds a president who disagrees with it.
In practice
Worcester against Georgia decided in the Cherokee Nation's favour.
Where people slip
Unit 10 covers both cases and the removal that followed anyway. A judgment nobody will enforce is a lesson about the limits of the power claimed at entry 2403.
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