Jackson Vs Georgia Case Summary

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1. Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay agree on the need for a tariff on manufactured imports after 1824 because the goal of the tariff was to tax the produce of foreign industry, with the view of promoting American industry. The tariff was associated with manufactured goods. This system will force capital and labor into new employments for the successful establishment of manufacturers. Henry Clay was a strong nationalist and warhawk from Kentucky. He won the election to the House of Representatives in 1810. As a candidate for president in 1824, Clay proposed the American System. He used this system to ensure an integrated national economy in which the protective tariff would allow domestic manufacturing to take place while it generated revenues …show more content…

The Constitutional implications of Worcester v. Georgia case in 1832 was when the Supreme Court stated that Georgia could not control the Cherokee within their territory, where Samuel Worcester and Elizur Butler who were two missionaries have not obtained a license and disobeyed the Georgia law to live on the Cherokee lands, even though they were welcomed by the Cherokee nation to stay. In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, the court case in 1831 was where the Cherokees fought for defense against the Indian Removal Act and Georgia's nullification of Cherokee laws. In addition, John Marshall states that the Cherokee had an unquestionable right to their land and they were a domestic independent nation. The decisions related to the Indian Removal Act because the Native American culture plays a huge part of American culture. This act was passed by Congress in 1830, which allowed the Native Americans to resettle, including all of the five civilized tribes, (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek ,and Seminole) east of the Mississippi to the new Indian territory. This act separated the Indians from the United States creating a new territory for the Indians but kept that trade and bond with the United States. This showed that the states have a superior place in the law of Constitution if unconstitutional they can nullify all duties

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