| Joseph Blunt - 1833 - 708 páginas
...State governments ; and they were expressly prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit, or making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. It was intended to vest in Congress the power to establish n uniform currency, instead of the fluctuating... | |
| Joseph Blunt - 1833 - 710 páginas
...State governments; and they were expressly prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit, or making anything 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... | |
| United States. President - 1846 - 968 páginas
...ordinary affairs, is, in my judgment, to view it in a very erroneous light. The constitution prohibits the states from making anything but gold and silver a tender in the payment of debts, and thus secures to every citizen a right to demand payment in the legal currency.... | |
| United States. President - 1854 - 586 páginas
...ordinary affairs, is, in my judgment, to view it in a very erroneous light. The constitution prohibits the states from making anything but gold and silver a tender in the payment of debts, and thus secures to every citizen a right to demand payment in the legal currency.... | |
| Nancy N. Scott - 1856 - 478 páginas
...currency, a uniform standard of weights and measures, and the same provisions contain a prohibition against making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, and a denial of any power to pass a law to impair the obligatioa of contracts. What species of currency... | |
| David Ramsay - 1858 - 600 páginas
...every power for their interior government, but restrained from coining money, emitting bills of credit, making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, passing any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts. This... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1869 - 878 páginas
...they conferred upon Congress the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, at the same time prohibiting the States from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. The anomalous condition of our currency is in striking contrast with that which was originally designed.... | |
| 1863 - 498 páginas
...principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, and although no such express prohibition is applied to Congress, yet as Congress has no power granted... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1863 - 606 páginas
...principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance. The states are expressly prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; and although no such express prohibition is applied to congress, yet as congress has no power granted... | |
| John Fulton - 1864 - 582 páginas
...principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; and although no such express prohibition is applied to Congress yet, as Congress has no power granted... | |
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