[Ads-l] "...now let him enforce it..."

[Stephen Goranson]

Attributed to Andrew Jackson in 1832 but considered apocryphal by many (e.g., by Erwin Chemerinsky, "The One Question That Really Matters: If Trump Defies the Court, Then What?," NYTimes. March  7)
"John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it [if he can]."

Some claim it first appeared in Horace Greeley, The American Conflict (1864) I. 106, who said he got it from [Gov.] George N. Briggs of Massachusetts, a congressman in 1832.

Maybe already noted somewhere,  it appeared in Nov. 27, 1861 NY Tribune 4/3 [AmHistN]

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Has merely, "let him enforce" this same Worcester v Georgia ruling, "him" here being a [precursor?] plea to Jackson.

sg




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