 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1833 - 844 pages
...article of the constitution giving Congress ihis power is in these words : " The Congress shall have power to " coin money, to regulate the value " thereof and of foreign coin." The separate states made a complete surrender of this description of power; and these separate... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1823 - 500 pages
...5 1st, Whether under that section of the constitution of the United States, which gives to Congress the power " to coin money, to regulate the " value thereof and of foreign coin, and to provide " for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities *' and current coin of the... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1825 - 612 pages
...: 1st. Whether under that section of the constitution of the United States, which give to congress the power " to coin money, to regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin, and to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of (he United... | |
 | 1826 - 506 pages
...in which they are to be calculated. It is that granted in the clause by which congress is authorized to "coin money, to regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins." Under this authority, congress has not only issued coins, but has fixed by law, the proportionate value... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...national constitution, an object of such paramount importance, that they expressly gave to Congress the power to coin money, to regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and to fix the standard of weights and measures. But as Congress has hitherto only legislated... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1830 - 632 pages
...naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcy throughout the U. States: — to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and to fix the standard of weights and measures: — to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the secundes and current coin of the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1837 - 612 pages
...one, the constitution was formed and adopted. Now, sir, by this constitution, Congress is authorized to "coin money, to regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins ;" and all the States are prohibited from coining money, and from making any thing but gold and silver coins... | |
 | Condy Raguet - Business & Economics - 1840 - 354 pages
...debts," &c. The authority of Congress over the currency, is limited by the same instrument to the simple power, " to coin money, to regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins." In the exercise of this power, it authorised by act of 2d April, 1792, the coining of silver dollars... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1841 - 624 pages
...against the establishment of a national bank ; that Congress has no power over the currency, except " to coin money, to regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins ;" that Congress has no power to distribute among the States the proceeds of sales of public lands,... | |
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