 | United States. Supreme Court - 1904 - 444 页
...which was given to congress, and denied to the states, taken in connection with the prohibition to them to emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in the payment of debts, was not intended to give to congress the exclusive power of regulating... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 页
...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,... | |
 | T. B. - 1844 - 850 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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 - 726 页
...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 页
...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.... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1861 - 804 页
...exercising thensovereignty in certain ways. No State may enter into alliances, or make peace or war, or emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment oi debts, or pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the... | |
 | 1863 - 856 页
...regard to one at with regard to the other. But, on the other hand, the States are expressly prohibit«d to ' emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debt*. 1 Treasury notes are 'bills of credit;'and this prohibition is imperative... | |
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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. 
