Nationalism Comic Strip Activity (Fletcher v. Peck)
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- I hear-by pass this land grant which will award territory to four companies
- In 1795, the Georgia state legislature had passed a land grant that was awarding territory to four companies.
- I was bribed to sell the land.
- The following year, the legislature had then found out that they were bribed the prior year to sell most of their land to four land companies. They then voided the law and declared all rights and claims under it to be invalid. This will then be known as the Yazoo Land Scheme.
- We need to void this law!
- Me to!
- Yes! We also need to declare the claims to be invalid
- This is now my land!
- John Peck had acquired some land which was part of the original legislative land grant.
- Three years after purchasing the land, Peck then decided to sell his 13,000 acres to a guy named Robert Fletcher. Peck had claimed that the sales were legitimate
- Here are your 13,000 acres
- Thank you for selling this land to me
- Fletcher had began to argue that since the original sale of the land was declared invalid, so Peck had no legal right to sell the land which was then a breach in their contact. Fletcher then decided to sue Peck.
- He breached our contract. He never once told me that the land the land he sold me was now invalid.
- The Supreme Court then confirmed that the legislature's repeal of the law was unconstitutional under Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1 (the Contract Clause) of the United States Constitution. The majority of the court had then concluded that the sale between Fletcher and Peck was a binding contract, which under the Contract Clause cannot be invalidated even if it was illegally secured. This case is important because it helped expand judicial review and the first time the Supreme Court had declared a state law as unconstitutional.
- Under the Contracts Clause (Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1), states cannot take back an agreement even if that agreement was reached illegally.
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