...is no part of the contract, and simply to release the prisoner does not impair its obligation. (38) Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate...coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. In a subsequent section of the same article, (39) the separate states are prohibited from coining money...

...[LS] CITIZENSHIP. CHURCH. [See BURGLARY.] COIN. By the constitution of tho United States, sec. 8, c. 5, Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; also to provide for ihe punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current...

...MONEY. § 408. Section VIII. of Article I. proceeds as follows in the enumeration of specific powers : " Congress shall have power .... to coin money, regulate...and fix the standard of weights and measures." In this connection should be read a part of Section X. § 1, " No state shall coin money." It is not necessary...

...foreign coin. In the fifth clause of the eighth section of the first article, it gives to Congress power " to coin money, regulate the value thereof,...fix the standard of weights and measures." In the first clause of the tenth section of the same article it restricts the power of the States over the...

...thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, etc." Section 8, clause 5, says : " The Congress shall have power * * * to coin money, regulate...and fix the standard of weights and measures." . In speaking of the powers of Congress, in 1831, Mr. Gallatin said: " As this body has no authority to...

...10: "No State shall * * * coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a legal tender in payment of debts, * * * pass any law impairing...to grant to them 35,000,000 acres for $500,000, ie 70 acres for $1. The next year a new legislature unanimously passed a repealing act. The Supreme Court,...

...quality and weight. The Constitution of the United States, in Article I, section 8, paragraph 5, says, "Congress shall have power" "to coin money, regulate...fix the standard of weights and measures." In the f1rst place the article is not mandatory; it simply says, "Congress shall have power." The company...

...acted. When, however, Congress chooses to pass a uniform law, all state regulations. are suspended. "The Congress shall have Power ... to coin Money, regulate...fix the Standard of Weights and Measures."* In the What act of coinage several processes are involved: Coinage is. the metal intended to be used as money...

...The Coinage of Money. — Another clause of section 8 of article I of the Constitution says that "the Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate...and fix the standard of weights and measures." In connection with this clause should be read and considered another (Art. I, sec. 10, clause 1) which...

...legal tender is sought by most writers, perhaps, in the clause in the Constitution declaring that, "The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate...and fix the standard of weights and measures." In another place it is declared that no State shall "coin money," or "make anything but gold and silver...