Dartmouth, the Supreme Court, property rights, and state authority (in 1819)

Dartmouth College was chartered December 13, 1769. More on its history here. (Via Today in History, at American Memory, The Library of Congress.)

Both links have information on the Dartmouth College Case (1819), in which Daniel Webster argued before the United States Supreme Court that the college was a private entity, protected from state regulation by the contract clause of the United States Constitution.