 | 1912 - 344 pages
...validity on the fifth clause of section 8 of Article I of the Constitution, which reads as follows : "The Congress shall have power: * * * To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures." The Act under discussion, in making... | |
 | 1833 - 224 pages
...naturalization, and uniform laws on the sutject of bankruptcies, throughout tb* United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the "punishment of counterfeiting the sccuri ics and current coin of the... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1834 - 174 pages
...strangely left without any efficient operation. <§ 121. The next power of Congress is, 'to coin money, 'regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix ' the standard of weights and measures.' The object of the power over the coinage and currency is, to produce uniformity in the value... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - 1834 - 186 pages
...participation in it with the General Government. To assure this power, the Constitution provided that, "The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1837 - 696 pages
...restrains the power of the states. Art. 1, sec. 8, item 5; "Congress shall have power, &c. to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins; and fix the standard of weights and measures: and item 6, adds, "to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 520 pages
...eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, which related to money. " The congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures." Now, from that isolated clause,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 pages
...strangely left without any efficient operation. § 177. The next power of Congress is, to " coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures." The object of the power over the coinage and currency of the country is, to produce uniformity... | |
 | John W. King - 1841 - 80 pages
...regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. " The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. " The Congress shall have the power... | |
 | 1842 - 600 pages
...general government to use the power granted to it in the constitution ; which is as follows — viz, " The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof" &c. This gives to Congress the whole power of regulating the standard of value of money ; and this... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1847 - 470 pages
...naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States : 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures : 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the... | |
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