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•Fletcher the current owner of the land said that since the original sale of the land had been invalid Peck had no right to the land.

Peck said that the sale of the land had been completely validated since he was granted the land by the state of Georgia.

The question was could the state legislature invalidate the contract originally held by Peck?

The Supreme court with John Marshall as the chief justice ruled that the new legislature could not void the land contracts given to companies by the old legislature. Article 1 Section 10 kept the court from ruling in favor of Fletcher. Which stated, no State shall make any law impairing the obligation of contracts. The charter was not dissolved by the revolution.

Fletcher v. Peck was the first case in which the Supreme Court ruled a state law is unconstitutional, the decision also hinted that the Native Americans did not own their lands. We all know that Native Americans were not respected back then. This case somehow in someway said that the Judicial branch was not as weak as it sounded.

There is one case that is related to this case that we have talked about a lot in this class about. Does anyone know what it is. In which they both strengthened the Federal Government.

Fletcher v. Peck

&

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

By:

Trent Robertson &

Shivam Savant (Mostly Trent)

This is similar to the Dartmouth v. Woodward case where the state tried to invalidate a previous contract. During the hearing the example of Fletcher v. Peck was given many times. Yes this was after Fletcher v. Peck. The judgement was given February 2 1819.

The state of New Hampshire wanted to make the college a public college.

But the college had a charter contract from the king of England to be a private college so according to the constitution it would be illegal for the state to change that.

Right now to this date is one of the top 50 colleges in the nation.

This decision was ruled the same way against the state as

Fletcher v. Peck and the supreme court had mostly the same

justices.

Fletcher v. Peck was started because of the state of Georgia selling land to companies for a very cheap price. It was later found the the low price was because the state legislatures were bribed. The case was argued on February 15, 1810 and judgement was given on March 16, 1810

These cases all talked about the supreme court budding into the state. Well I wouldn't call is budding they just followed the Constitution and made decisions that people were right and throughout all of these cases and most that were before us the chief justice was John Marshall this guy was old. Back to the point these cases proved that not every state was perfect they all had there flaws especially Georgia. Back then there was bribery and it wasn't that shocking even later if you were in jail people would literally pay the warden to beat you up. Some jails back then included boys, girls, men, and women in the same jail..SHOCKING!!!!!

Now the immediate impact was the bribery went down and new laws were placed more restricting the power of the states. And expanded the powers of the United States of America.

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