 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...being inconsiderable. In 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... | |
 | David Ramsay - Enslaved persons - 1809 - 642 pages
...for their interior government, but restrained from coining money, emitting bills of credit, making any thing 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... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...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 The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Dills of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...strcb intention. But the words are too imperative to be evaded. " 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, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." It would... | |
 | 1821 - 454 pages
...federal constitution, which de. clares — "That no state shall coin money, emit tills ef credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." That the notes designed to be issued, are bills of credit, no one can be disposed to controvert; when... | |
 | James Flint - Ohio River Valley - 1822 - 346 pages
...of the United States' Constitution, which expressly says, " No State shall emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. " Mr. Munroe, it is ascertained, is unanimously re-elected President, a circumstance with regard to... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 518 pages
...I now beg leave to suppose a case or two in regard to the powers of Congress. Has it authority "to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ?" This, as a distinct and independent power, is also prohibited to the states, but, as such, is not... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1825 - 528 pages
...1 now beg leave to suppose a case or two in regard to the powers of Congress. Has it authority " to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ?" This, as a distinct »nd independent power, is also prohibited to the states, but, as such, is not... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 738 pages
...carrying into execution the foregoing powers. No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, mike any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." These invaluable provisions were inserted in the fundamental law of the land, that the people might... | |
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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. 
