In an 1837 Case Involving the Charles River in Massachusetts

Multiple Choice

In an 1837 case involving the Charles River in Massachusetts, Chief Justice Roger Taney

A) declared that the community had a legitimate interest in promoting transportation and prosperity.
B) held that adding a second bridge over the river violated the charter rights of the company that built the first bridge.
C) granted Robert Fulton's steamboat company a monopoly in the ferry business on the river.
D) issued an opinion in which the U.S. Supreme Court, for the first time, overturned a state law.
E) officially declared that capitalism was the economic system of the United States.