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 * Even though there were not many significant inventions during Monroe’s presidency, there were, however, many important court cases. In the year 1819, the court case of [|Dartmouth College v. Woodward] was very significant. This case stated that the contract for Dartmouth College which said they were a private school, could not be changed. The state legislature of New Hampshire was trying to make Dartmouth college into a public charter school. Contract charters can not be invalidated by a law being passed in their states legislature. This case is considered to be one of the most important Supreme Court cases in history. It strengthened the Contract Clause and limited the state's power to interfere with private charters. Another monumental case was [|Gibbons v. Ogden] . This was over a dispute about whether a man by the name of Gibbons could be operating his steamboats in a place where Ogden was assigned by the New York State Government. However, in the case they found that Ogden shouldn’t have been assigned to those waters anyway. It is in violation of the law that state laws cannot directly interfere with Federal laws. As well as, states do not have the power to regulate interstate trade. Even further, a state does not have the power to grant exclusive right to state navigable waters that interferes with the federal law. As for how his presidency changed America, a couple major things were the addition of florida to the U.S through the [|Adam-Onis Treaty] and the continuation of George Washington’s idea of Neutrality through the [|Monroe Doctrine] . To sum it all up, Monroe’s presidency had many Monumental moments through it. **


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