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Groups requesting that the Vatican renounce the Doctrine of Discovery, a series of papal bulls, or decrees, that gave Christian explorers the right to lay claim to any land that was not inhabited by Christians and was available to be discovered. The Doctrine is still in use today. Since 1823, it has also been enshrined in U.S. law. In 2005, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited the Doctrine of Discovery in a land-claim ruling against the Oneidas, one of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:20:01 +0000

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