 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1837 - 670 pages
...less incident to a power in the states to emit paper money, than to coin gold and silver. The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency." Mr. Webster... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...less incident to a power in the states to emit paper money, than to coin gold or silver. The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Bills of... | |
 | Saint Louis (Mo.). - 1838 - 284 pages
...alliance, or confederation; grant letters af marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver a tender, in payment of debts ; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant... | |
 | Alexander Trotter - Business & Economics - 1839 - 478 pages
...the constitution of the United States has declared, that ' no state shall emit bills of credit, nor make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, nor pass any law which shall impair the obligation of contracts.' All this, however, proves, not that... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1840 - 172 pages
...the constitution of the United States has declared, that * no state shall emit bills of credit, nor make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, nor pass any law which shall impair the obligation of contracts.' AH this, however, proves, not that... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...governments ; and they were expressly prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit, or making any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. It was intended to vest in congress the power to establish a uniform currency, instead of the fluctuating... | |
 | 1839 - 212 pages
...marque and reprisal : 1 10 1 M " coining money : 1 10 1 " " emitting bills of credit l 1U 1 " " making any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts 1 10 1 " " passing nny bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Economics - 1840 - 348 pages
...bank, drawn on the credit of a particular fund appropriated for that purpose. ยง 447. The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is taken from the states on the same principle as the power of issuing bills of credit. Paper money,... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1840 - 444 pages
...the constitution of the United Stales has declared that " no State shall emit bills of credit, nor make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, nor pass any law which shall impair the obligation of contracts." All this, however, prQves, not that... | |
 | Comparative government - 1841 - 210 pages
...The states were expressly forbidden by the federal constitution to " emit bills of credit," or to " make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," or to " pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts ;" yet the state legislatures, in violation... | |
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The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 
