| Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - Virginia - 1877 - 1208 pages
...are prohibited from entering into any treaty, alliance or confederation, to coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debt, pass any bill of attainder, txpoit facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1833 - 710 pages
...governments; and they were expressly prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit, or making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. It was intended to vest in Congress the power to establish a uniform currency, instead of the fluctuating... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1833 - 708 pages
...governments ; and they were expressly prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit, or making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. It was intended to vest in Congress the power to establish n uniform currency, instead of the fluctuating... | |
| Books - 1841 - 902 pages
...regulate the value of foreign coins," and when they forbade the states " to coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debt, or pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." If they did not guard more explicitly... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1841 - 928 pages
...regulate the value of foreign coins," and when they forbade the states " to coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debt, or pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." If they did not guard more explicitly... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...regulate the value of foreign coins," and when they forbade the states to ''coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," or "pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." If they did not guard more explicitly against... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 968 pages
...regulate the value of foreign coins," and when they forbade the states to " coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," or "pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." If they did not guard more explicitly against... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 666 pages
...386; 6 Cranch, 87; 2 Story Const., p. 236, sec. 1385; Smith Const. Law, p. 384, src. 252. No State can make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. Const. US, art. 1, sec. 10. See, also, dissenting opinion in 10 Howard, 2OJ. Dan W. Jones, Attorney... | |
| 1851 - 1220 pages
...Constitution, it is declared, among other things, that no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. What, Sir, is a bill of credit ? Will it be contended that a bank bill is not a bill of credit i They... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 720 pages
...from exercising certain powers. Among other things they are not permitted "to coin money; emit billsof credit; make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," &c. Although 1 am not disposed, in this place, to contest the right claimed by the several Slates to... | |
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