 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 576 pages
...this distinction cannot be maintained. They may differ in Tiany respects, but neither of them is a state, in the sense in which that term is used in the constitution. Every reason assigned for the opinion of the court, that a citizen of Columbia was not capable of suing... | |
 | Cherokee Nation, Richard Peters - Cherokee Indians - 1831 - 332 pages
...may then unquestionably be sued in this court. May the plaintiff sue in it? Is the Cherokee nation a foreign state in the sense in which that term is...argument as was intended to prove the character of the Cherokeesas a state, as a distinct political society, separated from others, capable of managing its... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...NATION v. THE STATE OP GEORGIA ; 412' An Indian tribe, or nation, within the United States, is not a foreign state, in the sense in which that term is used in the constitution, and cannot maintain an action in the courts of the United States. ^ / WORCESTER v. STATE OF GEORGIA.... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - International law - 1855 - 938 pages
...though the Cherokee nation of Indians, dwelling within the jurisdictional limits of Georgia, was not a " foreign State " in the sense in which that term is used in the Constitution, nor entitled, as such, to proceed in that Court against the State of Georgia, yet the Cherokees constituted... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...that this distinction cannot be maintained. They may differ in many respects, but neither of them is a State, in the sense in which that term is used in the Constitution. Every reason assigned for the opinion of the court, that a citizen of Columbia was not capable of suing... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 pages
...may, then, unquestionably, be sued in this Court. May the plaintiff sue in it ? Is the Cherokee nation a foreign State in the sense in which that term is used in the Constitution ?' the lands they occupy, until that right shall be extinguished by a voluntary cession to our Government... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...distinguish a territory from the District of Columbia. But it was said that " neither of them is a State in the sense in which that term is used in the Constitution." In Scott v. Jones (5 How. 343), and in Miners' Bank v. Iowa (12 How. 1), it was held that under the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1871 - 666 pages
...nation vs. The State of Georgia, 5 Peter«, 1, Chief Justice Marshall says : Is the Cherokee nation a foreign state in the sense in which that term is used in the Constitution ? The counsel for the plaintiff have maintained the affirmative of this proposition with great earnestness and ability. «So... | |
| |
Is the Cherokee nation a foreign state in the sense in which that term is used in the constitution? 
