 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1919
...acting," and especially by "depriving the states of the power to impair the obligation of contracts, or to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, the conviction was impressed on that portion of society which had looked to the government for relief... | |
 | Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry, James C. Brandow - 1985 - 728 halaman
...the tenor of the whole constitution will answer: "No state shall coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, pass any bills of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts."2 Every... | |
 | John P. Kaminski, Richard Leffler - 1998 - 228 halaman
...length on that section of the constitution which declares, that "no state shall 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, impairing the obligation of contracts." This will... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 700 halaman
...acting," and especially by "depriving the states of the power to impair the obligation of contracts, or to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, the conviction was impressed on that portion of society which had looked to the government for relief... | |
 | 1821
...declares— "That no state shall coin money, emit biUt ofcrtdit, or make any thing but gold and titver a tender in payment of debts." That the notes designed...issued, are bills of credit, no one can be disposed to cowtrovert; when it is recollected, that these notes are made the representatives of property, and... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1863
...purpose into effect. If, therefore, it can be made to appear that the authority to emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, or pass laws impairing the obligation of contracts, is an essential power of government, needful to... | |
 | 1821
..."That no state shall coin money, emit bills ffc'fit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender n payment of debts." That the notes designed to be. issued, are bills of redit, no one can be disposed to coutrovert; when t is recollected, that these notes are made the reresenlatives... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888
...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.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1832
...governments, and they were expressly prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit, or from making any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. It was intended to vest in Congress the power to establish an uniform currency, and to place it out... | |
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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. 
