| United States - 1904 - 410 pages
...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... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1336 pages
...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... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1886 - 964 pages
...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... | |
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