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We deserve better than this a nation. They are saying dangerous things with their little sound bites and clips.

Pass this on - and for gods sake news people PLEASE PRESS THEM ON THIS.

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And I want you to remember the consequences of that action two hundred years ago:

Genocide. Rule by white supremacy. Injustice

https://klru.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/akh10.socst.ush.exp.trail/trail-of-tears-we-shall-remain/

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Why am telling y'all a story that happened 200 years ago?

Cuz Trump & his supporters are using Jackson's quote to campaign 200 years later!

Every time you hear someone say that quote: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it", I want y'all to remember WHY he said it.

He meant if the Supreme Court made a ruling that a state or even the President didn't like or agree with, they didn't have to abide by it.

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That's where the Andrew Jackson quote comes from, and *why* he said it.

"John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it".

Historians are not sure he actually said that, but instead said this to Brigadier General John Coffee:

"The decision of the supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate."

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/worcester-v-georgia-1832/

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quick summary:

1827: Cherokee Nation adopted written constitution
1828: Gold found near Dahlonega, Cherokee Nation
1829: Andrew Jackson becomes president
1830: Georgia passes law "abolishing" the Cherokee nation & requiring US citizens to get a license to live on Cherokee land
1831: Supreme Court declines to hear Cherokee Nation v. GA
1832: Supreme Court rules Indian nations are not subject to state law, Worcester v. GA.

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Well, they passed laws saying the Cherokee government was abolished and all their citizens were subject to the laws of Georgia.

Another law passed in 1830 required non-Cherokee citizens to obtain a state license to live on Cherokee Land.

This is when the Cherokee Nation took their case to the Supreme Court in Cherokee Nation v. GA in 1831.

https://www.cherokee.org/about-the-nation/history/

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