 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Legal tender - 1863 - 254 pages
...Missouri, (4 P.-turs S. ('. K., 410, 432, 442.) In the next place, I say that the power to " coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts," is forbidden to the States ; while the power " to coin money, regulate... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1863 - 606 pages
...general government ; and hence it is forbidden to the several states, by section ten, to " coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." Money is the medium of Hague agt. Powers. exchange — rthe standard... | |
 | Commerce - 1863 - 498 pages
...General Government ; and hence it is forbidden to the several States by section ten to "coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." Money is the medium of exchange — the standard or representative of... | |
 | Sidney George Fisher - Currency question - 1864 - 96 pages
...overspread the country with all the evils that the Constitution intended to avert when it forbade the States to emit bills of credit or make anything but gold and silver a legal tender, was not the point. Let the States and the people take care of themselves, was the cry,... | |
 | Montroville Wilson Dickeson - Coinage - 1865 - 374 pages
...the Federal Constitution presented to Congress, expressly providing that no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. The cent ordered from the Massachusetts Mint made its appearance. 1788.... | |
 | Philip Lindsley - 1866 - 742 pages
...nation, and by making the paper receivable at all points for dues to the government.] No State shall "emit bills of credit;" or "make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." This article of the constitution cannot be altered, modified or abrogated... | |
 | Philip Lindsley - 1866 - 746 pages
...nation, and by making the paper receivable at all points for dues to the government.] No State shall "emit bills of credit;" or "make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." This article of the constitution cannot be altered, modified or abrogated... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...South Carolina, said: " In the tenth article, first section, it is said, no state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts; the interpretation which I give to it is, that the United States... | |
 | Henry Clay Dean - Sinking-funds - 1869 - 562 pages
...its own language by prohibition and authority. Its prohibition, " No State shall * * * coin money, emit bills of credit, (or) make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." — Art. II., Sec. 10. It authorizes the Congress of the United States... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1870 - 142 pages
...instrument on this subject of legal tender is that which declares that "No State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts ;" thus removing the whole matter from the domain of State legislation.... | |
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States the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. 
