 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...the value of foreign coins," and when they forbade the states to ''coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," or "pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." If they did not guard more explicitly against... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 666 pages
...386; 6 Cranch, 87; 2 Story Const., p. 236, sec. 1385; Smith Const. Law, p. 384, src. 252. No State can make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. Const. US, art. 1, sec. 10. See, also, dissenting opinion in 10 Howard, 2OJ. Dan W. Jones, Attorney... | |
 | Edward Kellogg - Currency question - 1849 - 322 pages
...standard of weights and measures." Sec. X., 1., " No State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." It is clear that by the Constitution, Congress has the right to coin money, and regulate its value;... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...Constitution, it is declared, among other things, that no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. What, Sir, is a bill of credit ? Will it be contended that a bank bill is not a bill of credit i They... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 720 pages
...exercising certain powers. Among other things they are not permitted "to coin money; emit billsof credit; make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," &c. Although 1 am not disposed, in this place, to contest the right claimed by the several Slates to... | |
 | Nancy N. Scott - Judges - 1856 - 478 pages
...monetary system of the United States. A third, that the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, and to make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts is expressly taken from the States ; and, that therefore, Congress must have the power now claimed,... | |
 | Nancy N. Scott - Judges - 1856 - 468 pages
...standard of weights and measures. No State shall have power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. From these sections some have argued, the Constitution intended to give Congress the power over the... | |
 | United States - 1857 - 498 pages
...Section of the I". S. Constitution provides that no State should "coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts."" On the reverse, a dial with the hours expressed ] upon it, with Ki'fsio on the left, and the date,... | |
 | Iowa, Iowa. Constitutional Convention - Constitituional law - 1857 - 656 pages
...alliance, or confederation ; grant letters of marque and reprisal ; coin money ; emit bills of credit ; make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts ; or... | |
 | Johann L. Tellkampf, Johann Ludwig Tellkampf - Banks and banking - 1859 - 348 pages
...another a right which he does not himself possess. "Nemo plus juris in alium transferre potest quam quod ipse habet." Since no state can coin money, or emit...(under which paper money is included,) can they make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts? No state has itself a right to make money,... | |
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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. 
