 Clearly there is no need of making coin a legal tender at any specified weight. If governments would confine their legislation to fixing by enactment the fineness of the precious metal and the number of grains that shall constitute each piece of a given...  The Natural Law of Money - Page 35by William Brough - 1894 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1895 - 902 pages
...elasticity and usefulness. " Clearly there is no need of making coin a legal tender at any weight whatever. If governments would confine their legislation to...grains that shall constitute each piece of a given size, they may safely leave the maintenance of the coinage in its integrity and the value of the pieces... | |
 | Richard H. Timberlake - 1993 - 528 pages
...validate Congress's transgressions of its constitutional limits. As William Brough stated the case: "Clearly there is no need of making coin a legal tender...given name, they may safely leave the maintenance of coinage, . . . and the value of the pieces to be regulated [to] individual interest and action."58... | |
 | Richard H. Timberlake - 1993 - 528 pages
...constitutional transgressions. As William Brough, a nineteenth-century scholar, stated the matter: "If governments would confine their legislation to...given name, they may safely leave the maintenance of coinage . . . and the value of the pieces to be regulated [to] individual interest and action."29 (See... | |
 | Kevin Dowd, Richard Henry Timberlake - 474 pages
...to validate Congress's transgressions of its constitutional limits. William Brough stated the case: "Clearly there is no need of making coin a legal tender...given name, they may safely leave the maintenance of coinage. . .and the value of the pieces to be regulated [to] individual interest and action" (Brough... | |
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