Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, At January Term, 1832, Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, In the Case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error, versus The State of Georgia

Author: Marshall, John (Chief Justice)
Title: Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, At January Term, 1832, Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, In the Case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error, versus The State of Georgia
Publication: Washington DC: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1832
Edition: First Edition

Description: With a statement of the case, extracted from the Records of the Supreme Court of the United States. Printed from Authenticated Copies Wraps. Disbound wraps. 20 pages.Title on page 1. Stitching removed. Damp-stains to the contents. Lower left corner split, creased. Fair only.

Chief Justice Marshall opinion against Georgia's decision to condemn the Cherokee Missionary Samuel A. Worcester to "hard labor" - "It is the opinion of this Court that the judgment of the Superior Court for the County of Gwinnett, in the State of Georgia, condemning Samuel a. Worcester to hard labor, in the penitentiary of the State of Georgia, for four years, was pronounced by that Court under color of the law which is void, as being repugnant to the constitution, treaties, and laws, of the United States, and ought, therefore, to be reversed and annulled." A later edition, same year included another opinion by Justice McLean (39 pages).

Howes M 318; DeRenne Vol. 1 p.430; Field 1017. Fair.

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Subject: Georgia, Law, Native Americans