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Worcester v. Georgia

Published: Sept. 26, 2020, midnight

In the 1830s the Cherokee of north Georgia had settled on a strategy of using litigation to establish and enforce rights that had been given to them by treaties with the United States.  Samuel Worcester, a missionary to the tribe from Vermont, helped to come up with this approach. And they won their case at […]