 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1853
...alliance or confederation ; grant letters of marque and reprisal ; coin money ; emit bills of credit ; make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; PASS ANY bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or LAW IMPAIRING THE OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS, or... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edward Everett - 1853
...last branch of the sentence, than to the word " debts," in that immediately preceding ? Can a State make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of future debts ? This nobody pretends. But what ground is there for a distinction ? No State shall make... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edward Everett - 1853
...perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly prohibited from making any thing 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... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1855
...States consist? They surely cannot make war, or peace, or alliances, or raise armies, or build navies, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, or impair the obligation of contracts, or regulate trade ; in short, they can hardly do any one of... | |
 | HENRY FLANDERS. - 1858
...'No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation, coin money, emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, or pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts ;' these, with a number of others, are important... | |
 | Johann Ludwig Tellkampf - 1859 - 323 halaman
...where it is directly denied to the states in these words:— u No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts" Consequently, there shall either be no issue of notes at all, or it shall be under the sole control... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1859
...Federal Government ; and since that time no State can coin money, regulate its value, emit bilk of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in discharge of debts. Congress alone has the full power to coin and regulate its value ; a disputed power... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1860
...perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly prohibited from making any thing 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... | |
 | Edward Kellogg - 1861 - 350 halaman
...standard of weights and measures." Sec. X., I., " No State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, make any. thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." It is clear that Congress has the Constitutional right to coin money, and regulate its value; to emit... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1862
...on imports or exports, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, emit bills of credit, declare any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, or pass a bill of attainder, an ex post facto law, or a law impairing the obligation of contracts;... | |
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The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 
