 The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts...  Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York - Page 24by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Constitutional law - 1802 - 344 pages
...these mischiefs is less incident to a power in the states to emit paper money, than to coin gold or silver. The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in the payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of striking of... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...being inconsiderable. In depriving the states of the power to impair the obligation of contracts, or to make any thing 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... | |
 | David Ramsay - Enslaved persons - 1809 - 642 pages
...for their interior government, but restrained from coining money, emitting bills of credit, making any thing 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. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 444 pages
...clause, in the number of the Federalist I have referred to. It is there said, the power to make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principles with that of issuing a paper currency. Л11 these prohibitions, therefore, relate to powers... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...these mischiefs is less incident to a power in the states to emit paper money, than to coin gold or silver.—* The power to make any thing; but gold and silver a tender in the payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of striking of... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...these mischiefs is less incident to a power in the states to emit paper money, than to coin gold or silver. The power to make any thing but gold and silver...same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Dills of attainder, ex poat facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...strcb intention. But the words are too imperative to be evaded. " No State shall emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." It would... | |
 | 1821 - 454 pages
...federal constitution, which de. clares — "That no state shall coin money, emit tills ef credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." That the notes designed to be issued, are bills of credit, no one can be disposed to controvert; when... | |
 | James Flint - Ohio River Valley - 1822 - 346 pages
...of the United States' Constitution, which expressly says, " No State shall emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. " Mr. Munroe, it is ascertained, is unanimously re-elected President, a circumstance with regard to... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 518 pages
...authority. I now beg leave to suppose a case or two in regard to the powers of Congress. Has it authority "to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ?" This, as a distinct and independent power, is also prohibited to the states, but, as such, is not... | |
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