 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 576 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 494 páginas
...renounce whatever of jurisdiction it has not. ' So much of the argument,' says Chief Justice Marshall, ' as was intended to prove the character of the Cherokees as a state, has, in the opinion of a majority of the judges, been completely successful.' But two of the judges... | |
 | Cherokee Nation, Richard Peters - 1831 - 332 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1836 - 508 páginas
...may then unquestionably be such 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." He continues, " their counsel have shewn conclusively, that they are not a state of the union, and... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 páginas
...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 - 1855 - 938 páginas
...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 - 1855 - 702 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 698 páginas
...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 Consti tution. Every reason assigned for the opinion of the court, that a citizen of Columbia was not... | |
 | 1901 - 510 páginas
...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... | |
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Is the Cherokee nation a foreign state in the sense in which that term is used in the constitution? 
