 | Frank Moore - 1862 - 830 halaman
...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 pott facto law, or a law impairing the obligation of contracts;... | |
 | Reverdy Johnson - 1863 - 764 halaman
...would be no great need to borrow. It has been argued, that because the power is denied to the States to make " any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," and is not denied in terms to Congress, it therefore exists in Congress. To this position the answer... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Thomas - 1863 - 240 halaman
...would be no great need to borrow. It has been argued, that because the power is denied to the States to make " any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," and is not denied in terms to Congress, it therefore exists in Congress. To this position the answer... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 822 halaman
...be no question that they relate to powers of a general and national character. The next in order is, or " make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; " this is founded upon the same principles of public and national policy, as the prohibition to coin... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1864 - 850 halaman
...less incident to a power in the states to emit paper money, than to coin gold or silver. The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Bills of... | |
 | William B. Wedgwood - 1866 - 492 halaman
...money, regulates the value thereof, and the value of foreign coin; but no State can coin money, nor make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. 3. The national government establishes post-offices and 2. Which government forma treaties with foreign... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 684 halaman
...power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, at the same time prohibiting the States from making any thing 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.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 662 halaman
...power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, at the same time prohibiting the States from making any thing 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.... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - 1869 - 596 halaman
...property in payment of debts, at exaggerated and fictitious appraisement. § 7. Though a State can not make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, yet this prohibition does not apply to the General Government. A large part of the present paper circulation... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - 1809 - 370 halaman
...property in payment of debts, at exaggerated and fictitious appraisement. § 7. Though a State can not make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, yet this prohibition does not apply to the General Government. A large part of the present paper circulation... | |
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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. 
