
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer: When Politics are a Peril
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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The Power of the Sword
The georgians thought, why should the indians have that gold? We would like it. So they passed a lot of laws in georgia saying, we're going to go to northerna georgia, and it belongs to us. And nobody objected to that and tried to turn it around. It wasn't a president or congress who came later and said, no, we don't think so. Oh, my goodness. I'll tell you because andrew jackson, that's the other story i love tell tell. That story wasnt quite the same thing as they were interpreting a treaty,. under the treaty by the cherokee indians.
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