Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed by Lindsay G. Robertson

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By Lindsay G. Robertson

In 1823, leader Justice John Marshall passed down a very best court docket determination of enormous significance in defining the rights of indigenous peoples through the English-speaking global. on the center of the choice for Johnson v. M'Intosh was once a "discovery doctrine" that gave rights of possession to the eu sovereigns who "discovered" the land and switched over the indigenous vendors into tenants. notwithstanding its that means and goal has been fiercely disputed, greater than one hundred seventy five years later, this doctrine continues to be the legislations of the land. In 1991, whereas investigating the invention doctrine's ancient origins Lindsay Robertson made a startling locate; within the basement of a Pennsylvania furniture-maker, he came across a trunk with the entire company documents of the Illinois and Wabash Land businesses, the plaintiffs in Johnson v. M'Intosh. Conquest via Law offers, for the 1st time, the full and troubling account of the ecu "discovery" of the Americas. it is a gripping story of political collusion, detailing how a spurious declare gave upward thrust to a doctrine--intended to be of restricted application--which itself gave upward thrust to an enormous displacement of individuals and the production of a legislation that governs indigenous humans and their lands to this day.

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