 | John Alexander Ferris - Business & Economics - 1867 - 378 pages
...and subversive of the whole tenor of the Constitution upon the subject. " No State can coin money, or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." Congress has power " to coin money, and regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin." The word... | |
 | Franklin Chamberlin - Commercial law - 1869 - 1004 pages
...also, in the same instrument prohibited the States from exercising powers as follows: emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, expost-facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - United States - 1869 - 396 pages
...property in payment of debts, at exaggerated and fictitious appraisement. 7. Though a State cannot make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, yet this prohibition does not apply to the General Government. A large part of the present paper circulation... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...secure the citizen in his private rights, of either property or contracts. The prohibitions not to make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, and not to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, were inserted to secure private rights.... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 556 pages
...opinion on a point not involved in the record. No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. These prohibitions, said Mr. Justice Washington, associated with the powers granted to congress to... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 494 pages
...opinion on a point not involved in the record. No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. These prohibitions, said Mr. Justice Washington, associated with the powers granted to congress to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1877 - 556 pages
...the tenth section provides, by way of prohibition, that "no State shall coi« money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a, tender in payment of debts," &c. It is clear from thrse provisions that the framers of the Constitution intended to establish л... | |
 | 1877 - 870 pages
...have served the purpose for which they were issued without the quality of legal tender. The power to make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, he said, was expressly forbidden to the States ; if it existed at all, it was confided to Congress,... | |
 | Henry Richard Linderman - Currency question - 1877 - 196 pages
...less incident to a power in the States to emit paper money, than to coin gold or silver. The power to make anything 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." . . . (F)... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Virginia - 1878 - 914 pages
...are prohibited from entering into any treaty, alliance or confederation, to coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debt, pass any bill of attainder, ex psst facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contrasts,... | |
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coin money and regulate the value of foreign coins," and when they forbade the states to ''coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," or "pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. 
