| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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