The Doctrine of Discovery

The doctrine of discovery conveyed legal title to an ownership of american soil to european nations. This definition is expansive m and expansive discovery implies that native nations have a right to lands as occupants or possessors, but they are incompetent to manage those lands. And am, so when we're talking about this legal title, it devolves to the united states later on. So rather than being colonial states like 13 original colonies, then that turns into a settlerd colonial government.