NAT 105 Midterm: NAT unit 4 rvw

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NAT 105
• Professor: Doctor Stevens

Document Summary

John marshall (longest serving chief justice of the supreme court), est judicial rvw (the authority to strike down laws) Later obtained the land from the government. Court sided with m"intosh bc indians do not own land but they have the rights to occupy land, only federal government can negotiate land rights. Doctrine discovery: ownership of lands lay w the governments whose subjects explored and occupied that land whose inhabitants were not subjects of european monarch. Any land not inhabited by christians was available to be. Case 2 : georgia v cherokee nation (1831) Cherokee nation wanted federal injunction against laws passed by the state of georgia for not permitting them their given rights, Georgia started to send people to native territory to live. Injunction: official order form the court to stop someone from doing something. Supreme court did not hear the case and ruled it had no original jurisdiction, cherokee nation is a domestic dependent nation with the us.