| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 σελίδες
...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...tender in payment of debts." These provisions respect th« medium of payment, or standard of value, and, thus collated, their joint result is clear and decisive.... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1835 - 524 σελίδες
...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 inpayment of debts." These provisions respect the medium of payment, or standard of value,... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1835 - 1166 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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.... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1848 - 524 σελίδες
...this: " Con firm shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; bill no Slate shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or...provisions respect the medium of payment, or standard ot value, and, thus collated, their joint result is clear and decisive 25 & L. We think the result... | |
| Edward Kellogg - 1849 - 322 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1853 - 656 σελίδες
...coin ; - but no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." These provisions...payment, or standard of value, and, thus collated, then: joint result is clear and decisive. We think the result clear, also, of those provisions which... | |
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