Andrus v. Utah

Me. Justice Powell, with whom The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Blackmun, and Mr. Justice Rehnquist join,

dissenting.

Since the early days of the Republic, the Federal Government’s compact with each new State has granted the State land for the support of education and allowed the State to *521select land of equal acreage as indemnity for deficiencies in the original grant. Today, the Court holds that the Taylor Grazing Act abrogated those compacts by approving selection requirements completely at odds with the equal acreage principle. Nothing in the Court’s opinion persuades me that Congress meant so…