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In 2-3 sentences, discuss the Yazoo Land Fraud.

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The Yazoo Land Fraud was a mid-1790s scandal in which Georgia legislators, bribed by land companies, sold huge tracts in what are now Alabama and Mississippi at below-market prices; public outrage led a new legislature to repeal the sales. The ensuing disputes reached the U.S. Supreme Court in Fletcher v. Peck (1810), which ruled that the repeal violated the Contract Clause, marking an important early assertion of judicial review over state laws.