| Fletcher v. Peck | | Supreme Court of the United States | Argued February 15, 1810
Decided March 16, 1810
| | Full case name: | Robert Fletcher v. John Peck | | | Citations: | 10 U.S. 87; 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87; 3 L. Ed. 162;1810 U.S. LEXIS 322; | | | | Prior history: | Demurrer overruled, D. Mass | | | | Subsequent history: | None | | | | Holding | | The Contracts Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibited Georgia from voiding contracts for the transfer of land, even though they were secured through illegal bribery. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts affirmed. | | Court membership | Chief Justice: John Marshall
Associate Justices: William Cushing, Samuel Chase, Bushrod Washington, William Johnson, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Thomas Todd | | Case opinions | Majority by: Marshall
Joined by: Cushing, Chase, Washington, Livingston, Todd
Concurrence/dissent by: Johnson
| | Laws applied | | U.S. Const. art. I, § 10, cl. 1 | Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87 (1810), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision. It was the first case in which the Supreme Court ruled a state law unconstitutional. The case grew out of the 1795 Georgia state legislature's sale of land in the Yazoo River country (in what is now Mississippi) to private speculators in return for bribes. Voters rejected most of the incumbents in the next election and the next legislature, reacting to the public outcry, repealed the law and voided transactions made under it. Image File history File links Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court. ...
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John Peck had purchased land that had previously been sold under the 1795 act. Peck sold this land to Robert Fletcher and in 1803, Fletcher brought suit against Peck, claiming that he did not have clear title to the land when he sold it. The case reached the Supreme Court, which in a unanimous decision ruled that the state legislature's repeal of the law was unconstitutional. The opinion, written by John Marshall, argued that the sale was a binding contract, which according to Article I, Section 10, Clause I (the Contract Clause) of the Constitution cannot be invalidated, even if illegally secured. Today the ruling further protects property rights against popular pressures, and is the earliest case of the Court asserting its right to invalidate state laws conflicting with the Constitution. 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
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See also This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 10: 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 1 (1810) 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 8 (1810) 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 29 (1810) 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 51 (1810) Ex parte Wilson, 10 U.S. (6...
The Yazoo Land Scandal, Yazoo Fraud or Yazoo Land Fraud was a massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795 to 1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at ridiculously low prices. ...
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Further reading - John Marshall: Definer Of A Nation by Jean Edward Smith, 1996, Henry Holt & Company.
- Yazoo: Law and Politics in the New Republic: The Case of Fletcher v. Peck by C. Peter Magrath, 1966 ISBN 0-608-18419-5
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