http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1867/ U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>Do the military laws invoked under the Reconstruction Acts unconstitutionally deprive Georgia of its sovereignty?</p><p>Nelson maintained that this was a "political" question and thus out-of-bounds for judicial inquiry. Georgia sought rights of a political character, not rights of persons or property. Thus the issue was outside the domain of a law or equity court.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1867/1867_0/