 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 sider
...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,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1843 - 642 sider
...that instrument, and hear what it says. " Congress shall coin money and regulate the value thereof; no state shall emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a legal tender." Here are positive and negative provisions : a grant of power to Congress, and a limitation... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1843 - 642 sider
...that instrument, and hear what it says. " Congress shall coin money and regulate the value thereof; no state shall emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a legal tender." Here are positive and negative provisions : a grant of power to Congress, and a limitation... | |
 | T. B. - 1844 - 850 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...growing out of the 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... | |
 | 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 sider
...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 - 720 sider
...North Carolina (Mr. ALSTON) has, with some confidence, cited the tenth section of the first article : " No State shall emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver a tender." He urged this denial of the right to the States to emit bills of credit as a perfect prohibition... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 726 sider
...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... | |
 | Montroville Wilson Dickeson - 1860 - 380 sider
...the Federal Constitution presented to Congress, expressly providing that no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. The cent ordered from the Massachusetts Mint made its appearance. 1788.... | |
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States the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. 
