You are making Georgia a laughingstock here. Where are you getting that from?
Of course you know that Justice Story threatened to hold Virginia state justices in contempt in 1816, and they backed down. Everyone who has barked treason at the United States has backed down.
Walt
A laughingstock? I hold a different view - one that many of the states shared - that Georgia was correct. Georgia refused to defend herself in the case (obviously). Where do I get this stuff from? The "record":
"And be it further enacted, That any Federal Marshal, or any other person or persons levying, or attempting to levy, on the territory of this State, or any part thereof, or on the Treasury, or any other property belonging to the said State, or on the property of the Governor or Attorney-General, or any of the people thereof, under or by virtue of any execution or other compulsory process issuing out of or by authority of the Supreme Court of the United States, or any other Court having jurisdiction under their authority, or which may at any period hereafter under the constitution of the said United States, as it now stands, be constituted, for, or in behalf of the before mentioned Alexander Chrisholm, Executor of Robert Farquhar, or for, or in behalf of, any other person or persons whatsoever, for the payment or recovery of any debt, or pretended debt, or claim, against the said State of Georgia, shall be, and he or they attempting to levy as aforesaid are hereby declared to be guilty of felony,and shall suffer death, without the benefit of clergy, by being hanged."FYI, two days after this ludicrous decision, Massachusetts Senator Sedgwick introduced the legislation that became the 11th Amendment. Connecticut and Virginia also submitted amendments.
Journal of the House of Representatives, "An act declaratory of certain parts of the retained sovereignty of the State of Georgia", 21 Nov 1793