20 points ! on what grounds did the us supreme court refuse to hear the 1831 cherokee nation v. georgia case? a. the court declared that georgia was right to auction off cherokee land. b. the court did not believe it had jurisdiction over matters involving states’ rights. c. the court did not recognize the cherokee tribe as a sovereign nation. d. the court stated that the cherokee had signed a treaty to give up their lands.

montesquieu took the view that the roman republic had powers separated so that no one could usurp complete power. in the british constitutional system, montesquieu discerned a separation of powers among the monarch, parliament, and the courts of law.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.