Money and Its Laws: Embracing a History of Monetary Theories, and a History of the Currencies of the United States

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H. V. and H. W. Poor, 1877 - 623 Seiten

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The mode in which they serve as such
22
The inconvenience and distress
27
Distinction between capitalists and Banks
31
No bills to be discounted but those given for merchandise entering into con
39
Symbolic currencies measure the means of consumption of a people
46
Constant and excessive fluctuations the law of all government currencies
52
Always a forced loan
57
Becomes an authority with the Church
70
JOHN
81
Prices increased by reducing the currency
90
Invention of money impossible
103
Corn a better measure of value than coin
109
The word seems illustrative of Smiths method
115
Money is the only one the maintenance of which can occasion
121
Exported in consequence of previous expenditures
126
Advantages resulting from the use of the former
129
Advances to be made to merchants only as the representatives of manu
135
Contrast between the old and new races
142
Sketch of the history of usury note
143
A person rich in proportion to the amount he holds
149
The age of Protection the heroic one
160
The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen have made England what
166
Freetrade and Protection
169
Were England insulated her currency might as well be paper as coin
172
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180
Stewart a striking example of the weakness and folly of the Schoolmen
181
Issue of notes a right at common law
187
Cannot like bills of exchange be issued by producers
189
Necessity of a higher law than morality
190
Mr Pitt promises compliance
193
Description of the mode of their issue
199
Not the excess alone but all the issues of the Bank speedily return
202
The amount of such currency permanently outstanding increases
208
Resolutions accompanying the report of the Committee rejected
209
Repudiation vindicated in Congress by Jacob Thompson
212
Essays Moral Political and Literary 1752
214
WILLIAM HUSKISSON
216
The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation 1817
223
His assumptions wholly opposed to the fact
229
The Bank resumes May 1 1821
235
Lord Liverpools plan adopted
241
Hence a change in their amount followed by a far greater one in the amount
247
Condition of the Bank Feb 29 1882 note
257
Hence the condition in which it was placed
266
Kicardo the central figure of the new school of Economists as Smith of
269
Extraordinary demands upon the Bank in 1837
272
Reflections Suggested by a Perusal of the Pamphlet of Mr J Horsley
274
Committee of the House appointed to consider the subject of Banks of Issue
281
No difference in principle between the several forms of paper money
288
Their ignorance of banking systems of the United States
293
Sketch of Banking in the several States
295
chants of the country
360
JAMES W GILBART
368
All merchandise entering into consumption should be symbolized
369
In providing a banking capital makes no distinction between substance
375
Money always to be in ratio to the number of exchanges
381
An inconvertible currency may be made to circulate at
388
amount of work
396
The new school
398
The incredible absurdity that gold is wealth
402
The value of all currencies depends upon their quality not quantity
410
Professorships of Political Economy should be suppressed or put into
415
Deposits how they arise
417
His inferior currency
421
The appeal to the empirical has fully sustained the conclusions of induc
427
Banking in Michigan
428
First issue of 3000000 June 22d 1775
430
No difference but in form between notes and checks drawn against deposits
433
Order of Congress that the notes pass at their nominal value
436
Varying fortunes of the war
442
Absurdity of the illustration 178
443
Monopolies of money and merchandise always the effect of a legaltender
448
Continued issues and decline of notes
454
The opposing doctrines not the result of natural laws but of conditions
455
209
459
Mischievous effect of the government currency
460
Local jealousies and rivalries
466
Could derive no advantage from provisions designed to promote the general
471
Illustrations of his opinions upon the nature and powers of our government
477
Charter of the Bank expired March 4 1811
483
General Jacksons first Annual Message declares the Bank unconstitutional
489
Sketch of the revival of parties
505
Jackson inaugurated the reign of anarchy and barbarism
509
General Jacksons attack on the Bank the first attempt in this country
517
Value not an attribute of money
523
Their capital and note circulation in 1834
528
114
530
Smiths elements of price and classifications of property arbitrary
536
The standard of value not the instrument by which the exchanges
539
Abandons its paternal function of regulating the currency
553
The Banks in consequence compelled to suspend
560
The folly of his attempt to issue demand notes
567
Draws the bill for the second issue of notes
573
Criminality involved in their issue
579
The creation of a system of Banks their circulation to
581
115
585
That used by governments as well as by the public to be symbolic
588
Amount of securities held by the National Banks
596
Absurdity of the statement that notes are now hoarded
610
A silver standard would be a debased for the reason that it would be
616
2d Return to the National Banks of their securities
617
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Seite 477 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Seite 509 - Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Seite 11 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Seite 469 - That every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.
Seite 492 - Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank as being precluded in my judgment by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation...
Seite 466 - I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States.
Seite 2 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.
Seite 466 - If you tell the legislatures, they have violated the treaty of peace, and invaded the prerogatives of the confederacy, they will laugh in your face.
Seite 476 - Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Seite 277 - The history of what we are in the habit of calling the " state of trade " is an instructive lesson. We find it subject to various conditions which are periodically returning ; it revolves apparently in an established cycle. First we find it in a state of quiescence, — next improvement, — growing confidence, — prosperity, — excitement, — overtrading, — convulsion, — pressure, — stagnation, — distress, — ending again in quiescence.

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