 | United States. Supreme Court - 1904 - 444 páginas
..."Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin ; but no slate 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,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 páginas
...this: " Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; btU 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 th« medium of payment, or standard of value,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1835 - 1166 páginas
...this: " Congress shall hare power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; bvt no State shall coin money', emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold andbiher coin a tender inpayment of debts.'' These provisions respect the medium of payment, or standard... | |
 | T. B. - 1844 - 850 páginas
...of England, it is even more stringent. By a fundamental Article of the Constitution, no State " can emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debt." An attempt was made some years since in Kentucky to evade this provision.... | |
 | Edward Kellogg - 1849 - 322 páginas
...to fix the standards of weights and measures. Sec. X., 1., declares that the States have no right to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. Bank bills are bills of credit, and very hazardous ones too; for millions... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1850 - 272 páginas
...restrictions on the legislative power of the states. For example, it is provided that "no state shall emit bills of credit," or " make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." Should this prohibition be violated, and a suit between citizens of... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 páginas
...the tenth section of the first article of the Constitution, it is declared, among other things, that no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. What, Sir, is a bill of credit ? Will it be contended that a bank bill... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1866 - 616 páginas
...only reference to gold and silver coin is in the shape of a prohibition on the States. " No States shall * * coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts," etc. This is not an enabling clause. The States are prevented by it... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 726 páginas
...I am correct, the conclusion is inevitable. In the 10th section of the first article, it is said, " No State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts;" and the interpretation which I give to it is that the Uniled States... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1856 - 590 páginas
...credit. In this form, they are forbidden by the Constitution of the United States, which declares that " no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold or silver coin a tender in payment of debts." Bank-notes, also, after the banks have suspended specie... | |
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Congress shall have 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. 
