| Joseph Blunt - 1833 - 708 pages
...State governments ; and they were expressly prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit, or making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. It was intended to vest in Congress the power to establish n uniform currency, instead of the fluctuating... | |
| Joseph Blunt - 1833 - 710 pages
...State governments; and they were expressly prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit, or making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. It was intended to vest in Congress the power to establish a uniform currency, instead of the fluctuating... | |
| Nancy N. Scott - 1856 - 478 pages
...currency, a uniform standard of weights and measures, and the same provisions contain a prohibition against making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, and a denial of any power to pass a law to impair the obligatioa of contracts. What species of currency... | |
| David Ramsay - 1858 - 600 pages
...every power for their interior government, but restrained from coining money, emitting bills of credit, making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, passing any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts. This... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1869 - 878 pages
...Congress the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, at the same time prohibiting the States from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. The anomalous condition of our currency is in striking contrast with that which was originally designed.... | |
| 1863 - 498 pages
...constitutional principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, and although no such express prohibition is applied to Congress, yet as Congress has no power granted... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1863 - 606 pages
...constitutional principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance. The states are expressly prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; and although no such express prohibition is applied to congress, yet as congress has no power granted... | |
| John Fulton - 1864 - 582 pages
...constitutional principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; and although no such express prohibition is applied to Congress yet, as Congress has no power granted... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1864 - 626 pages
...values, what weights and measures are to quantities, the exact measure, and a uniform, stable one. The States were prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender for debts, and the general government was authorized, touching this subject, only "to coin money, regulate... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1909 - 746 pages
...constitutional principle perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, and, although no such express prohibition is applied to Congress, yet, as Congress has no power granted... | |
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