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The Natural Law of Money - Page 130
by William Brough - 1894 - 168 pages
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The American Annual Register of Public Events for the Year ..., Or, the ...

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...
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American Annual Register for the Years ..., Or the ... Year of American ...

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...
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A Memoir of Hugh Lawson White: Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee ...

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...
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Ramsay's History of South Carolina: From Its First Settlement in ..., Volume 1

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...
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Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Part 1

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....
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 49

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...
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Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, Volume 25

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...
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Free Government in England and America: Containing the Great ..., Volume 25

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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 22

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...
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Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 12

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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