Jackson took no action to make Georgia follow the ruling. By not enforcing the courts decision , Jackson violated his presidential oath to uphold the laws of the land.
Jacksons response: "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."
Jackson supported Georgia's efforts to remove the Cherokee
President Jackson did not enforce the ruling.
Jacksons response: "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."
President Jackson did not enforce the ruling.
Jackson took no action to make Georgia follow the ruling. By not enforcing the courts decision , Jackson violated his presidential oath to uphold the laws of the land.
In the case of Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia's laws did not apply to the Cherokee Nation and that the removal of Native Americans from their lands was unconstitutional. President Andrew Jackson disagreed with the ruling and famously said, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." Jackson refused to enforce the court's decision, leading to the forced removal of Native Americans along the Trail of Tears.
There was nothing to actually enforce. Georgia complied with the Court's ruling not to treat directly with the Native American Nations. Within four years, though, the Trail of Tears would begin, which expelled most of the Cherokee from Georgia anyway.
Only to the extent that the president empowers him. It is the president's job to enforce the law.
Worcester v. Georgia ruled that the Cherokee Tribe "constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers." Jackson defied the Supreme Court and kicked the Cherokee out of their homes to Oklahoma. Many died on the Trail of Tears.
Worcester v. Georgia, 31 US 515 (1832)General Andrew JacksonPresident Jackson didn't refuse to enforce a US Supreme Court ruling. This is a popular myth perpetuated by the internet and other unreliable sources, arising from the ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, 31 US 515 (1832), in which the Supreme Court, under the leadership of John Marshall, declared Native Americans had a right to federal protection against enforcement of unconstitutional state laws.President Jackson never said, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!" In Paul Boller's book, They Never Said It: A Book of False Quotes, Misquotes, & False Attributions, historian Robert V. Remini explains Jackson wrote in a letter to John Coffee, "...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate," meaning the Court's opinion was moot because it had no power to enforce its edict (not being a legislative body).In fact, Georgia did obey the Supreme Court's only substantive ruling, which ordered the release from jail of missionaries who had lived on Native American land without buying a required state license. Since Georgia complied, there was nothing to enforce.President Jackson and Congress opposed the Court's developing support of Native American rights, which they later demonstrated by seizing Native American land and displacing its inhabitants in the "Trail of Tears" tragedy.For more information about Worcester v. Georgia, see Related Questions, below.
the job is not to enforce the laws but to make them.