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Worcester v. Georgia
1. The OCR process that produced the text here obviously had a lot of challenges. I have attempted to correct some of the more severe problems, but trust that you will use context to work your way through most of the errors.
2. What if Congress had not passed a statute governing white dealings with the Indians? Would Georgia then have had the ability to regulate Indian land?
3. How does this case relate to governance today of various reservations within states? Do the states have any authority there?
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