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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
1. What was Georgia doing that threatened to annihilate the Cherokee Nation?
2. Chief Justice Marshall makes up a new category of nation, a domestic dependent nation, as a way of asserting that the federal courts had no jurisdiction over the case. Was he right to do so?
3. What do you make of the dissent? How would the dissent have enforced its ruling, or does that question miss the point?
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