States provides that the Congress shall have power — To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the... "The Evolution of the Gold Standard" ... - Page 15by George H. Benton - 1896 - 31 pagesFull view - About this book
| Apples - 1912 - 350 pages
...validity on the fifth clause of section 8 of Article I of the Constitution, which reads as follows : "The Congress shall have power: * * * To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures." The Act under discussion, in making... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 800 pages
...value, the people caused the following provisions to occupy a prominent place in their constitution: "The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate...foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures; to provide for the punishment •ttosnterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Doited... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 738 pages
...but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. "To coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures. "To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United... | |
| Readers - 1833 - 224 pages
...naturalization, and uniform laws on the sutject of bankruptcies, throughout tb* United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the "punishment of counterfeiting the sccuri ics and current coin of the... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1834 - 174 pages
...strangely left without any efficient operation. <§ 121. The next power of Congress is, 'to coin money, 'regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix ' the standard of weights and measures.' The object of the power over the coinage and currency is, to produce uniformity in the value... | |
| 1834 - 186 pages
...participation in it with the General Government. To assure this power, the Constitution provided that, "The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...restrains the power of the states. Art. 1, sec. 8, item 5; "Congress shall have power, &c. to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins; and fix the standard of weights and measures: and item 6, adds, "to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 520 pages
...eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, which related to money. " The congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures." Now, from that isolated clause,... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...strangely left without any efficient operation. § 177. The next power of Congress is, to " coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures." The object of the power over the coinage and currency of the country is, to produce uniformity... | |
| John W. King - United States - 1841 - 80 pages
...regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. " The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. " The Congress shall have the power... | |
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