Originally posted by gofaster
Actually, I thought breaking and impairing oligopoly and monopoly contracts was what the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was all about.
And again during Prohibition, when the brewers suddently found themselves engaged in illegal activities.
I think, in the Dartmouth example, that it was a case of the state government attempting to convert an enterprise to its own use, with such use in violation of the contract between that enterprise and a foreign government.
oh man don't get me to lying! all i did was look for the word contract in the index of my constitutiom. Then I simply typed what I read

But I'm pretty sure that the constitution says that Federal law trumps State law.