Paperback: 224 pagesPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press (April 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0806136065
ISBN-13: 978-0806136066
Book Description
This compact history is the first to explore two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases of the early 1830s: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia. Legal historian Jill Norgren details the extraordinary story behind these cases, describing how John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee Nation, having internalized the principles of American law, tested their sovereignty rights before Chief Justice John Marshall in the highest court of the land. The Cherokees' goal was to solidify these rights and to challenge the aggressive actions that the government and people of Georgia carried out against them under the aegis of law. Written in a style accessible both to students and to general readers, The Cherokee Cases is an ideal guide to understanding the political development of the Cherokee Nation in the early nineteenth century and the tragic outcome of these cases so critical to the establishment of U.S. federal Indian law.
About the Author
Jill Norgren is Professor Emerita of government and legal studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is coauthor of Partial Justice: Federal Indian Law in a Liberal-Constitutional System and American Cultural Pluralism and Law and author of a forthcoming biography of Belva Lockwood.
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