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" Besides being the legal representative of value, money is also the measure of value. " The government reserves the right to fix the length of the yard, the weight of the pound, the size of the bushel, and the value of the dollar, that they may be fitted... "
Labor and Other Capital: The Rights of Each Secured and the Wrongs of Both ... - Page 54
by Edward Kellogg - 1849 - 298 pages
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The National Currency: April 6, 1864

L. Bonnefoux - Currency question - 1864 - 778 pages
...Measures to be strictly just must equitably determine quantities and values, whether of land, labor, or commodities. The Government reserves the right to...to make it just and uniform, that it may correctly determino the ralue of all commodities." 0 THE TRUE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF FINANCE. The Power of Money...
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The Life, Speeches, Labors and Essays of William H. Sylvis: Late President ...

William H. Sylvis, James C. Sylvis - Working class - 1872 - 470 pages
...to the same thing as if it was cloth they were selling, and had the making of their own yardstick. " The government reserves the right to fix the length...the size of the bushel, and the value of the dollar. Money is the public measure of value, and the government is bound to make it just and uniform, that...
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A New Monetary System: The Only Means of Securing the Respective Rights of ...

Edward Kellogg - Currency question - 1861 - 432 pages
...substances. Money is divided into pounds, shillings, and pence, dollars, half-dollars, dimes, etc., that it may determine the precise amount of the value...dollar, that they may be fitted for public use. Money ia the public measure of value ; and the government is bound to make it just and uniform, that it may...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 5

1880 - 690 pages
...assayed, melted, purified from excess of alloy, and coined for him. Again, this writer tells us that 'The Government reserves the right to fix the length of the yard, the specific gravity of the pound, the size of the bushel, and the value of the dollar.' This writer has...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 5; Volume 18

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1880 - 704 pages
...assayed, melted, purified from excess of alloy, and coined for him. Again, this writer tells us that 'The Government reserves the right to fix the length of the yard, the specific gravity of the pound, the size of the bushel, and the value of the dollar.' This writer hns...
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