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with a lengthy discussion of the history of the European colonization of the Americas and the legal foundations of the American Colonies. In particular, Marshall focuses on the manner in which each European power took land from the indigenous occupants. European powers used conquest and treaties to claim vast territories in North America, regardless of Indigenous occupation. Synthesizing the law of colonizing powers, Marshall traces the outlines of the "discovery doctrine"--namely,

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