| Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...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.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 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.... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 534 pages
...with regard to one as with regard to the other. There is no silence with regard to the States, which are expressly prohibited to " emit bills of credit,"...and this prohibition is imperative on the States. The inference is just, that this prohibition, expressly addressed to the States, was not intended to... | |
| Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...considered in connection with the other clause which denies to the States the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. We do not assert this now, but there are some considerations touching... | |
| Edward McPherson - United States - 1872 - 248 pages
...considered in connection with the other'clause which denies to the States the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. We do not assert this now, but there are some considerations touching... | |
| Samuel Thayer Spear - Church and education - 1876 - 400 pages
...by taxation, and enforce it by test-acts or by pains and penalties. The States cannot coin money, or emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, or pass a bill of attainder or an ex-post facto law or any law impairing... | |
| Samuel T. Spear - History - 1876 - 388 pages
...by taxation, and enforce it by test-acts or by pains and penalties. The States cannot coin money, or emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, or pass a bill of attainder or an ex-post facto law or any law impairing... | |
| Robert William Hughes - Currency question - 1879 - 236 pages
...power of the States over the subject by the provision declaring that " No State shall . . . coin money, emit bills of credit, [or] make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." It will be observed that this language gives to Congress the exclusive... | |
| Luther Vanhorn Moulton - Currency question - 1880 - 278 pages
...regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin,' and it also 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. Congress, then, and Congress only, can coin money and regulate the value... | |
| James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 832 pages
...which had grown up in defiance of the plain declaration of the Constitution, that " no State shall emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts," and to substitute in its place our present circulation of greenbacks... | |
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