The Cherokees sued as a foreign nation, but, while they did indeed constitute a separate state, they were not a foreign nation.
Virginia is as much a foreign nation as Russia[1001] so far as jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over the judgments of State courts is concerned.
The Cherokees not being a foreign nation, the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction in a suit brought by them in that capacity, said Marshall.
Congress was considering a bill to cut off the commercial privileges of the State, by putting her on the footing of a foreign nation, when news came that a convention at Newport had ratified the Constitution by the narrow margin of two votes.
Collectors at the ports and on the frontiers were authorized to seize goods which were "apparently on their way toward the territory of a foreign nation.
In a report to Congress Jefferson proposed that whenever our commerce was laid under restrictions by a foreign nation, similar restrictions should be put upon the trade of the offending state.
It does not apply to territory acquired by the present Federal Government, by treaty or conquest, from a foreign nation.
Our former territorial acquisitions came from certain of our own States; but this Louisiana country was acquired from a foreign nation.
The grand inquiry now is, Shall we make our own comforts, or go without them at the will of a foreign nation?
Is it to secure the independence of the people, to suffer a foreign nation to impose upon them any terms which it thinks proper?
Was the President of the United States presumed to have turned a deaf ear to the cries of our suffering countrymen in captivity in a foreign nation?
To the usual subjects of gratitude I can not omit to add one of the first importance to our well-being and safety; I mean that spirit which has arisen in our country against the menaces and aggression of a foreign nation.
The treaty does not propose to guarantee a territory to a foreign nation in which the United States will have no common interest with that nation.
When Congress have exerted their power by declaring war against a foreign nation, it is the duty of the President to prosecute it.
Where an enterprise is meditated by private individuals against a foreign nation in amity with the United States, powers of prevention to a certain extent are given by the laws.
To the usual subjects of gratitude I can not omit to add one of the first importance to our well being and safety; I mean that spirit which has arisen in our country against the menaces and aggression of a foreign nation.
This is now the only grave question which the United States has with any foreign nation.
If they were adopted, it ought to be because they would promote the interests of America, not because they would benefit one foreign nation, and injure another.
But the proposed measure only went to the imposition of a tax on their own citizens, for the benefit of a foreign nation.
Of the reparation for the offence committed against the United States, they were themselves the judges, and could not be required by a foreign nation, to demand more than was satisfactory to themselves.
Thus far they were ready to go; but they were not ready to engage in a contest injurious to themselves, for the benefit of a foreign nation.
Nothing, he contended, could be found in the constitution to authorize either branch of the Legislature to keep up any kind of correspondence with a foreign nation.
The establishment of trading houses under the influence of the two first parts of the system, for the purpose of conciliating the Indians by supplying their wants, and detaching their habits of trade and their affections from a foreign nation.
The peoples right is equally invaded, and their liberty lost, whether they are made slaves to any of their own, or a foreign nation; and in this lies the injury, and against this only have they the right of defence.
God, supreme in his kingdom; and also because he betrayed or forced his people, whose liberty he ought to have carefully preserved, into the power and dominion of a foreign nation.
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