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James Madison respectfully rises from his grave to stand to object with that reading of who determines what is or is not Constitutional: President Andrew Jackson was so infuriated by Marshall's opinion that he declared: "Let him enforce it!" then sent thousands of Cherokee ...

Marshall's SC used their powers as granted by the Constituion and determined what they thought was Constitutional.

President Jackson then used his powers as granted in the Constitution and took care of the enforcement...or lack there of.

Madison doesn't contradict anything that I said.

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Marshall invented -- out of nothing -- the concept of Indian Sovereignty. While we have played with that false concept for some two hundred years, it is not -- so Jackson held, and so I held -- natural law.

The concept extended to the War on Terror has already resulted in thousands of casualties. A terror organization like Hamas can have no sovereignty when the people under it -- in as much as the "Palestinians" may be considered under a government, for they do not behave so -- do not take on the character of a lawful nation respecting property, person and title.

And without those characteristics of a nation, there is no sovereignty except by shear force of arms and despotic rule.