...alliance 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, or ex post facto law, or LAW IMPAIRING THE OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS, or...

...last branch of the sentence, than to the word " debts," in that immediately preceding ? Can a State make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of future debts ? This nobody pretends. But what ground is there for a distinction ? No State shall make...

...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...

...States consist? They surely cannot make war, or peace, or alliances, or raise armies, or build navies, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, or impair the obligation of contracts, or regulate trade ; in short, they can hardly do any one of...

...'No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation, coin money, emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, or pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts ;' these, with a number of others, are important...

...where it is directly denied to the states in these words:— u No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts" Consequently, there shall either be no issue of notes at all, or it shall be under the sole control...

...Federal Government ; and since that time no State can coin money, regulate its value, emit bilk of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver a tender in discharge of debts. Congress alone has the full power to coin and regulate its value ; a disputed power...

...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...

...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...

...on imports or exports, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, emit bills of credit, declare any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, or pass a bill of attainder, an ex post facto law, or a law impairing the obligation of contracts;...