 | Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - Virginia - 1877 - 1208 pages
...the States. By it the States 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... | |
 | Books - 1841 - 902 pages
...their means we have flooded with a depreciated paper, which 'it was evidently the design of the framers of the constitution to prevent, when they required...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... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Virginia - 1878 - 914 pages
...the States. By it the States 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, ex psst facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contrasts,... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1840 - 460 pages
...means, we have been flooded with a depreciated paper, which it was evidently the design of the Cramers of the Constitution to prevent, when they required...States " to coin money, emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," or " pass any law impairing the obb'galion... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1840 - 444 pages
...flooded with a depreciated paper, which it was evidently the design of the framers of the Constitution lo prevent, when they required Congress to "coin money...States " to coin money, emit bills of credit, make any thing hut gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," or " pass any law impairing the obligation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1841 - 928 pages
...their means we have flooded with a depreciated paper, which it was evidently the design of the framers of the constitution to prevent, when they required...regulate the value of foreign coins," and when they forhade the states " to coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 410 pages
...Wilson, of Pennsylvania, moved to insert after the words " coin money," " nor emit btll-s of credit, nor make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." He was followed and supported by Mr. Sherman, of Connecticut, and the section, as amended, became an... | |
 | Presidents - 1847 - 976 pages
...currency of the country are suffering evils from operations of the state banks v. inch can not and ouglit not to be overlooked. By their means, we have been...Congress to " coin money and regulate the value of foreigri coins," and when they forbade the states to " coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything... | |
 | John Macgregor - Commercial treaties - 1846 - 658 pages
...means we have been flooded with a depreciated paper, which it was evidently the design of the framers of the constitution to prevent, when they required...states ' to coin money, emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts,' or ' pass any law impairing the obligation... | |
 | Virginia - Virginia - 1854 - 1076 pages
...constitation to the states themselves, in the requirement that they shall not emit hills of credit, nor make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. Is it not eminently proper, then, that government, in granting such a privilege, should provide every... | |
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The power to make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the States, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 
