States provides that the Congress shall have power — To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard' of weights and measures: To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the... The Money Question - Page 124by Henry V. Poor - 1898Full view - About this book
| Apples - 1912 - 350 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... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 800 pages
...value, the people caused the following provisions to occupy a prominent place in their constitution: "The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures; to provide for the punishment •ttosnterfeiting... | |
| 1834 - 186 pages
...from 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. Congress - Law - 1861 - 560 pages
...secession be illegal, then the Constitution is still violated. I say, then, Mr. President, while the Constitution of the United States provides that " the Congress shall have power " " to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States," and has given that power... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 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,... | |
| John W. King - United States - 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... | |
| Commerce - 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... | |
| Edward Kellogg - Currency question - 1849 - 322 pages
...interest upon producers. The Constitution of the United States, Act I., Sec. VIII. 5., declares, " The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures." Money is the legal standard of... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1851 - 682 pages
...Constitution, in the eighth section of the first article of which it was said, " Congress shall have the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and...and fix the standard of weights and measures ;" and, in the tenth section of the same arlicle, where it speaks of what the individual States shall not do,... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 682 pages
...Constitution, in the eighth section of the first article of which it was said, " Congress shall have the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and...and fix the standard of weights and measures;" and, in the tenth section of the same article, where it speaks of what the individual States shall not do,... | |
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