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When President Thomas Jefferson took office in 1800, an official close to the Federalist's reign in the Executive branch occurred. However, democracy was unable to remove Federalist authority from the Judicial Branch. Jon Marshall sat atop the Judicial Branch as ....

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.... of the "elastic clause" in the constitution. Later, Marshall ruled in the case of the Cherokee's vs. Georgia that the Cherokees did not have to leave their land, and yield to the government of Georgia. This was an attack on State's rights and Jackson quickly reacted. Jackson made a statement saying that Georgia could take the Cherokee land and that the Cherokee's would have to move to the west. The Trail of Tears followed, during which many Cherokee died, not even reaching their undesirable destination. Jackson said something to the effect of "John Marshall has made his judgement, now let him enforce it," but there was no way Marshall could enfo ....