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The ruling of that court was that the college was a public institution and therefore subject to oversight by the state government as defined in the legislative acts of 1816. The court that heard the case prior to the U.S. Supreme Court was the Superior Court of New Hampshire (sometimes referred to as the state Supreme Court). The case was not heard there as an appeal; but because the defendant in the case, university Secretary-Treasurer Woodward, was also the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Grafton County, the court of origin. The case was transferred to the Superior Court on agreement of both sides. Source: Private Interest and Public Gain: the Dartmuth College Case, 1819. Chapter 4. Answer: The Marshall Court stuck down the state laws as unconstitutional.

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