Handout B: Indian Removal, Constitutional Principles, and Civic Virtue

Handout B: Indian Removal, Constitutional Principles, and Civic Virtue

Directions: Given the following Constitutional principles, analyze the listed documents and determine which principles are either embedded in, or decidedly absent from, those documents. In the third column, provide a brief explanation.

Constitutional Principles: majority rule versus minority rights; representation; separation of powers; property rights

Document	Constitutional Principles	Does the document reflect this principle? Why or why not?
Andrew Jackson’s First and Second Messages to Congress
The Indian Removal Act
Worcester v. Georgia (1831) and Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
Treaty of New Echota