John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce…

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

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On a Supreme Court decision that a Georgia law prohibiting white men from entering Indian territory after 1 March 1831 was unconstitutional. Quoted in The American Conflict by Horace Greeley (1873), p. 106; also in The Life of Andrew Jackson (2001) by Robert Vincent Remini

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