• Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (1793), is considered the first United States Supreme Court case of significance and impact. Since the case...
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    Amendment was adopted to overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Chisholm v. Georgia (1793). In that case, the Court held that states did not enjoy sovereign...
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    Retrieved August 22, 2008. "Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. 419 (1793)". The Oyez Project. Retrieved December 6, 2022. "Georgia v. Brailsford, Powell & Hopton...
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  • Victoria, Australia Chisholm (surname), includes Chisholme, Chisolm and Chisum Clan Chisholm, a Scottish clan Chisholm v. Georgia, a 1793 case heard by...
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    no lower court may hear such cases. In one of its earliest cases, Chisholm v. Georgia, the court found this jurisdiction to be self-executing, so that...
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    the city solicitor for Philadelphia. He argued the cases of Chisholm v. Georgia and Hylton v. United States, two of the first cases to appear before the...
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    writs, thereby assisting citizens living far away from the capital. Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (1793), is considered the first United States...
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    Federalist No. 78 and the Supreme Court's rulings in Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) and Hollingsworth v. Virginia (1798) before and after the ratification of...
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    prestige, a situation not helped by the era's highest-profile case, Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), which was reversed within two years by the adoption of the...
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  • years after the Supreme Court's ruling in Chisholm v. Georgia, Justice Stanley Matthews expressed this in Yick Wo v. Hopkins: When we consider the nature...
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