Chief Justice Marshall was convinced by Daniel Webster's argument that the state had impaired "the obligation of a contract.
The decision in the Charles River Bridge Case, eighteen years after this one, did not overturn it but offered stricter guidelines. It resulted from the removal of John Wheelock, though it was Wheelock's secretary who was named in the suit. The Supreme Court made an interpretation of Section X, Article 1 of the Constitution in this case, which resulted from a grant made by King George III. Chief Justice Marshall was convinced by Daniel Webster's argument that the state had impaired "the obligation of a contract." FTP, name this 1819 case in which the trustees of a certain institution sued William H. Woodward and the state of New Hampshire.
The decision in the Charles River Bridge Case, eighteen years after this one, did not overturn it but offered stricter guidelines.
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