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- Title
What Was the Dartmouth College Case Really About?
- Authors
O'Kelley, Charles R. T.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward holding that the New Hampshire legislation violated the Contract Clause of the Constitution. It mentions doctrinal and theory-of-the firm arguments about Supreme Court precedents regarding the constitutional rights of corporations. It also mentions centrality of religion and the struggle for religious tolerance and the centrality of private property.
- Subjects
TRUSTEES of Dartmouth College v. Woodward; CHARTERS; UNITED States. Constitution -- Contract clause; CIVIL rights; RELIGIOUS tolerance
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2021, Vol 74, Issue 6, p1645
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article