REMARKS UPON THE RIGHTS AND POWERS OF CORPORATIONS, AND OF THE RIGHTS, POWERS, AND DUTIES OF THE LEGISLATURE TOWARD THEM. EMBRACING A REVIEW OF THE OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THE CASE OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, GIVEN IN 1819. BY A CITIZEN OF BOSTON.
Boston: Beals and Greene, 1837. 31, [1 blank] pp, stitched in original printed blue wrappers [lightly worn]. Very Good. Inscription on title page, "With Mr. Henshaw's respects."
This well-known Jacksonian analyzes the powers of corporations in ancient times, under British rule, and as the result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dartmouth College Case, which held that the New Hampshire Legislature's purported revocation of Dartmouth's Charter violated the constitutional prohibition against the impairment of contracts.
Unlike many Jacksonians, Henshaw did not oppose corporations: they do not necessarily result in monopolies or special privileges. However, by placing them "beyond legislative control," the Dartmouth College Case encourages corporations "to become monopolies and perpetuities" and hence "alarming excrescences upon the body politic."
FIRST EDITION. VIII DAB 563. Cohen 11617. AI 44746 [5]. Not in Marvin, Harv. Law Cat., Marke. Item #38337
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