 | William Montgomery Meigs - Constitutional conventions - 1899 - 424 pages
...Convention. On August 28, immediately after they had agreed to an absolute prohibition on the States to emit bills of credit or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts (Article I., Section 10, Clause 1, ante), King moved to add "in the words... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 408 pages
...with regard to one as with regard to the other. There is no silence Avith 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1098 pages
...the value thereof, and of clause 1, section 10. of article 1, providingthat nostate shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender for the payment of e debts. WHS claimed; but the state courts did 5J not deny to Congress... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1900 - 746 pages
...thereof, and of clause one, section ten, of article one, 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... | |
 | Social sciences - 1900 - 400 pages
...that clause of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that no State shall have power to emit bills of credit or make anything but gold and silver a legal tender for the payment of debts. 9. Resolved, that experience having taught us, that when corrupting... | |
 | Oliver Perry Cornman - 1901 - 280 pages
...value thereof, and of foreign coin," and the states were expressly denied the power to " coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." These constitutional provisions paved the way for the establishment... | |
 | Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf - Law - 1901 - 1016 pages
...state is pledged. 4 Kent, Comm. 408. The constitution of the United States provides that no state shall emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. Article 1, § 10. This prohibition, it seems, does not apply to bills... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - Forensic orations - 1901 - 776 pages
...power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; but no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." These provisions respect the medium of payment, or standard of value,... | |
 | William Joseph Hughes, William R. Harr - Constitutional law - 1902 - 132 pages
...value thereof and of foreign coin. (Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 5.) The States were forbidden to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. (Art. I, sec. 10, cl. 1.) Upon whom is the inhibition against passing... | |
 | Roscoe Lewis Ashley - United States - 1903 - 428 pages
...persons who attempt to counterfeit our coins, but the States are expressly forbidden to "coin money, emit bills of credit" or "make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." Financial needa of national government. NATIONAL TAXES 268. The National... | |
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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. 
