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    Supreme Court case issuing a writ of error against the State of Georgia in indicting and prosecuting a person present on native lands for the reason: "The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress. The whole intercourse between the United States and this nation is, by our Constitution and laws, vested in the Government of the United States. The act of the State of Georgia under which the plaintiff in error was prosecuted is consequently void, and the judgment a nullity."

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    Supreme Court case issuing a writ of error against the State of Georgia in indicting and prosecuting a person present on native lands for the reason: "The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress. The whole intercourse between the United States and this nation is, by our Constitution and laws, vested in the Government of the United States. The act of the State of Georgia under which the plaintiff in error was prosecuted is consequently void, and the judgment a nullity."

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    Supreme Court case issuing a writ of error against the State of Georgia in indicting and prosecuting a person present on native lands for the reason: "The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress. The whole intercourse between the United States and this nation is, by our Constitution and laws, vested in the Government of the United States. The act of the State of Georgia under which the plaintiff in error was prosecuted is consequently void, and the judgment a nullity."

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    Supreme Court case issuing a writ of error against the State of Georgia in indicting and prosecuting a person present on native lands for the reason: "The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress. The whole intercourse between the United States and this nation is, by our Constitution and laws, vested in the Government of the United States. The act of the State of Georgia under which the plaintiff in error was prosecuted is consequently void, and the judgment a nullity."

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    Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515


    (1832)

    Syllabus Case

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    Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 6 Pet. 515 515 (1832)

    Worcester v. Georgia

    31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515

    Syllabus

    A writ of error was issued to "The Judges of the Superior Court for the County of Gwinett in
    the State of Georgia" commanding them to send to the Supreme Court of the United States
    the record and proceedings in the said Superior Court of the County of Gwinett, between
    the State of Georgia, plaintiff, and Samuel A. Worcester, defendant, on an indictment in
    that Court. The record of the Court of Gwinnett was returned, certified by the clerk of the
    Court, and was also authenticated by the seal of the Court. It was returned with, and
    annexed to, a writ of error issued in regular form, the citation being signed by one of the
    Associate Justices of the Supreme Court and served on the Governor and Attorney General
    of the State more than thirty days before the commencement of the term to which the writ
    of error was returnable.

    By the Court: The Judicial Act, so far as it prescribes the mode of proceeding, appears to
    have been literally pursued. In February, 1979, a rule was made on this subject in the
    following words:

    "It is ordered by the Court that the clerk of the Court to which any writ of error shall be
    directed may make return of the same by transmitting a true copy of the record, and of all
    proceedings in the same, under his hand and the seal of the Court."

    This has been done. But the signature of the judge has not been added to that of the clerk.
    The law does not require it. The rule does not require it.

    The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Supreme Court for the County of Gwinnett in the
    State of Georgia,

    "For residing, on the 15th July, 1831, in that part of the Cherokee Nation attached by the
    laws of the State of Georgia to that County, without a license or permit from the Governor
    of the State, or from anyone authorized to grant it, and without having taken the oath to
    support and defend the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, and uprightly to

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