...Revolution. Taught by this experience, the States were prohibited from issuing bills of credit, or making any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. This would seem to prohibit the issue of any paper-money on the part of the States, and such was doubtless...

...standard of weights and measures." Sec. X., I., " No State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, make any. thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." It is clear that Congress has the Constitutional right to coin money, and regulate its value; to emit...

...ordinary affairs, is, in my judgment, to view it in a very erroneous light. The constitution prohibits the States from making any thing but gold and silver a tender in the payment of debts, and thus secures to every citizen a right to demand payment in the legal currency....

...incicident 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 The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the States, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Bills of...

...credit." The States are forbidden to "emit bills of credit," as well as to "coin money," and to "make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts." The Constitution places the coining of money among the powers of Bills of ,, . < • , ... Credit. Congress,...

...or confederation ; grant letters of marque and reprisal ; coin money ; 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 ; or...

...constitutional principle, perfectly plain, and of the highest importance. The States are expressly prohibited from making any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts; and although no such prohibition is applied to Congress in express terms, yet Congress has no power...

...principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly prohibited from making any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; and although no such express prohibition is applied to Congress, yet, as Congress has no power granted...

...especially by "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 from...

...against both the constitutionality and expediency I cannot believe that Congress has power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, and if it had I V.irl Schurz, 1829-1906. The famous German-American leader and major general in the...