 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 444 pages
...no question, that they relate to powers of a general and national character. The next in order is, or " make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ;" this is founded upon the same principles of public and national policy, as the prohibition to coin... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...the value of foreign coins," and when they forbade the states to ''coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts," or "pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." If they did not guard more explicitly against... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1843 - 642 pages
...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 - United States - 1843 - 642 pages
...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... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 666 pages
...386; 6 Cranch, 87; 2 Story Const., p. 236, sec. 1385; Smith Const. Law, p. 384, src. 252. No State can make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. Const. US, art. 1, sec. 10. See, also, dissenting opinion in 10 Howard, 2OJ. Dan W. Jones, Attorney... | |
 | Edward Kellogg - Currency question - 1849 - 322 pages
...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... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...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 is not a bill of credit i They... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 616 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 720 pages
...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 United States... | |
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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. 
