 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, at the same time prohibiting the States from making any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. The anomalous condition of our currency is in striking contrast with that which was originally designed.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 638
...governments, and they were expressly prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit, or from making any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts. It was intended to vest in Congress the power to establish an uniform currency, and to place it out... | |
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The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 
