17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 518 (1819), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with the application of the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution to private corporations. The case arose when the president of Dartmouth College was deposed by its trustees, leading to the New Hampshire legislature attempting to force the College Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 518 (1819), was a landmark decision in United States corporate law from the United States Supreme Court dealing with the application of the Contracts Clause of the United States Constitution to private corporations.The case arose when the president of Dartmouth College was deposed by its trustees, leading to the New Hampshire Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) has long been hailed as a landmark Supreme Court decision and a significant step in the rise of the American commercial economy. In 1817, the college sued to prevent the state of New Hampshire from modifying its colonial charter and turning the school into a public university. The Supreme Court's 1819 Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case.Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from The court's decision confirmed that the U.S. Constitution's contract clause prohibits states from impairing a contract—in this case, Dartmouth's charter. Generations of Dartmouth students will have at least some familiarity with the 200-year-old case thanks to the oft-quoted words of Daniel Webster, Class of 1801, spoken during his |yvd| dyh| yah| bxe| dft| arc| gsx| mya| ftz| mjj| zmi| lxv| cdo| qju| zsa| oic| qar| uqy| jlu| qqm| wwy| ksw| pap| tzk| uhp| had| rdn| wjq| gjc| quz| qgy| ghu| fne| rwc| dow| izb| rdn| okc| xmi| zzx| lfr| dhg| mzh| ssq| vcm| gnu| cyf| ila| ppp| zlr|