 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1903 - 370 pages
...now contended for somewhat more obvious. Thus altered, the clause would read, that no State should make any thing but gold and silver a tender in discharge of contracts, nor pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts ; yet the first of these expressions... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1934 - 816 pages
...is not surprising, therefore, that, after the Convention had adopted the clauses, no state shall " emit bills of credit," or " make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts," Mr. King moved to add a " prohibition on the states to interfere... | |
 | Stanley L. Engerman, Robert E. Gallman - Business & Economics - 1996 - 1046 pages
...regulare the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin," and section 1o declates that no stare shall "coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; or make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debrs." Behind these ptovisions lay inflations ptoduced by the issue of... | |
 | Joseph M. Lynch - History - 2005 - 340 pages
...Standard of Weights and Measures." 59. US CONST, art. I, § 10, cl. 1 forbids the states to "coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; [or] make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts." 60. "No state shall. . . pass any . . . Law impairing the Obligation... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 2003 - 642 pages
...subject of security of property under this constitution. For it has provided, "that no state shall emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." It has also declared, that "no state shall pass any law impairing... | |
 | Robert E. Greenwood - 2006 - 416 pages
...thereof, and of Foreign Coin.... (Article I, Section 8, § 2 and 5), (and) No State shall coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; (or) make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts (Article I, Section 10, §1). Nowhere in the Constitution does it... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1831 - 604 pages
...in the extreme caution, that led to the provisions in our Constitution prohibiting the States to ' emit bills of credit,' or ' make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in the payment of debts.' "Smith's Wealth of Nations, Vol. I. p. 232. f Marshall's Life... | |
 | United States - 1912 - 1078 pages
...restrictions on the legislative power of the States. For example, it is provided that "no State shall emit bills of credit." or "make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." Should this prohibition be violated, and a suit between citizens... | |
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Convention had adopted the clauses, no state shall "emit bills of credit," or "make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, 
