...the market should have the uniform and reliable money supply it needed, no state should "coin money; emit bills of credit," or "make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." To enlarge the effective range of trading as well as of other activity,...

...which actions by the states were forbidden, including the provision that "no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." But he emphasized that no such limitation applied to the federal government....

...provisions that no State shall enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation, shall coin money, emit bills of credit or make anything but gold and silver coin tender in payment of debts; that no State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any imposts or...

...fix the standard of weights and measures. At the same time each state was forbidden to coin money or emit bills of credit or make anything but gold and silver coin legal tender. These double provisions, giving on one side and denying on the other, put substantially...

...value thereof, and of clause 1, section 10, of article 1, providing that no state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender for the payment of debts, was claimed; but the state courts did not deny to Congress any power...

...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,...

...the necessary confidence between man and man is to be noticed in the provision that no State shall emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts ; while the prohibition of bills of attainder and ex pott facto Acts protects...