 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 832 pages
...grew out of the general 1 See also Thorpe, Const Hist, of US, I, 125-128 and notes. " The power to make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts is withdrawn from the States, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency." Madison,... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 828 pages
...grew out of the general i See also Thorpe, Const Hist. of US, I, 125-128 and notes. " The power to make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts is withdrawn from the States, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency." Madison,... | |
 | Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge - Legal tender - 1903 - 208 pages
...[Conn.] moved ' to insert after " coin money " in article XII the words, " nor emit bills of credit, nor make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," making the prohibition absolute, instead of making the measures allowable as in the thirteenth article,... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 574 pages
...was considerable. In depriving the States of the power to impair the obligation of contracts or to make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, the conviction was impressed on that portion of society which had looked to the government for relief... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 458 pages
...states : " No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation, coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, pass any law impairing the obligations of contracts ;" these, with a number of others, are important... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 724 pages
...to exercise over any of her citizens. The Constitution of the United States forbids any state " to make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts; " yet it is claimed that this court has the power to compel a state to accept payment of a judgment... | |
 | Lawrence Chamberlain - Bonds - 1911 - 576 pages
...measure of autonomy in their fiscal relations. To be sure the states could not coin money,2 emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, lay any duties on imports or exports or tonnage, and could not impair the obligation of contracts,... | |
 | Numismatics - 1911 - 514 pages
...with coins. The Constitution also provides that "No State shall coin money; emit bills of credit; or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," etc. Congress has maintained this point so well that copper coins and nickel pieces, although authorized... | |
 | Gustavus Myers - 1912 - 848 pages
...States. True, the Constitution declared that no State " shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." But the Supreme Court of the United States later construed this clause to mean that " bills of credit"... | |
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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. 
