 | John Payne, James Hardie - Genesee Region (N.Y.) - 1799 - 662 pages
...however, no iuch evil can have exifted, as by the conftitution of the United States, " no fíate cao coin money ; emit bills of credit ; or make any thing but gold and diver com a tender in pavmcnt of debts." From the above confideration, therefore, we cannot be wrong,... | |
 | Political science - 1819 - 480 pages
...thereof, aud of foreign coin." And further, in the same article, it is ordained that " No state shall coin money, emit bills of " credit, or make any thing but gold and silver " coin a tender in payment of debts." These provisions were, no doubt, in the year 1788, con ceived... | |
 | James Flint - Ohio River Valley - 1822 - 346 pages
...most flagrant violation of the United States' Constitution, which expressly says, " No State shall emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. " Mr. Munroe, it is ascertained, is unanimously re-elected President,... | |
 | Isaac Holmes - History - 1823 - 490 pages
...state shall enter into any treaty of alliance, or confederation, grant letters of marque and reprisal, coin money, emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts ; or pass any bill of attainder ; or make any ex post facto law,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1833 - 746 pages
...exclusively to the new Federal Government; and since that time no State can coin money, regulate its value, emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in discharge of debts. Congress alone has the lull power to coin and regulate its value; a... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 682 pages
...obligation of contracts," is associated in the same section of the constitution with the prohibition to " coin money, emit bills of credit," or " make any thing but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts ;" and as these all evidently apply to legislation in reference... | |
 | Maryland - Bankruptcy - 1831 - 256 pages
...obligation of contracts," is associated in the same section of the constitution with the prohibition to "coin money, emit bills of credit," or, "make any thing but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts;" and as these all evidently apply to legislation in reference... | |
 | Matthew St. Clair Clarke - Banking law - 1832 - 856 pages
...conclusion is inevitable. In the 10th section of the first article, it is said, '• No State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver coin, a lender in payment of debts;" and the interpretation which 1 give to it is, that the United... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Citizenship - 1832 - 428 pages
...silver plate, established by law in this country, as it is in others. No state can constitutionally emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a lawful tender in payment of debts. There is no legal process by which a stale can be compelled to... | |
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Convention had adopted the clauses, no state shall "emit bills of credit," or "make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, 
