...Marshall: On discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively...whom the superior genius of Europe might claim an ascendancy. The potentates of the old world found no difficulty in convincing themselves that they...

...international law. As Chief Justice John Marshall said in a famous opinion concerning native lands, [America's] vast extent offered an ample field to the ambition and enterprise of all [European nations]; and the character and religion of its inhabitants afforded an apology for considering...

...On the discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively...whom the superior genius of Europe might claim an ascendancy. The potentates of the old world found no difficulty in convincing themselves that they...

...Discovery Doctrine on them. He also said that, "the character and religion of ... [America's Indian] inhabitants afforded an apology for considering them...whom the superior genius of Europe might claim an ascendancy." This culturally racist "superior culture and superior religion" conception of the Discovery...

...the "fierce savages," the ungovernable Indians: "[T]he character and religion [of the Indians] ... afforded an apology for considering them as a people...whom the superior genius of Europe might claim an ascendancy."13 Marshall's language sounds the theme of racism as absolution in the idea that the attributed...

...thinking in another decision: Johnson v. Mclntosh, "The character and religion [of indigenous peoples] afforded an apology for considering them as a people...whom the superior genius of Europe might claim an ascendancy."35 Marshall's formulation of the Doctrine of Discovery thus became the racist framework...

...On the discovery of this immense continent the great nations of Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively acquire. Its vast extent offered ample field to the ambition and enterprise of all; and the character and religion of its inhabitants...

...The "character and religion of [the continent's] inhabitants," he added, gave Europeans an "apology" as a "people over whom the superior genius of Europe might claim an ascendancy." These European usurpers convinced themselves that they offered "ample compensation" for...

...On the discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively...over whom the superior genius of Europe might claim ascendancy. The potentates of the old world found no difficulty in convincing themselves that they...

...On the discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively...whom the superior genius of Europe might claim an ascendancy. The potentates of the old world found no difficulty in convincing themselves that they...