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... balances arising in their foreign or domestic trade . At the foundation of our Government provision for the second kind of money , that of commerce , was made through the instrumen- tality of a National Bank which served as the ...
... balances arising in their foreign or domestic trade . At the foundation of our Government provision for the second kind of money , that of commerce , was made through the instrumen- tality of a National Bank which served as the ...
Page iv
... balances found against their issuers . In this way the restriction imposed upon the National Bank was imposed upon all others , so that there could be no excess of issue either by the National or State Banks . The result was a currency ...
... balances found against their issuers . In this way the restriction imposed upon the National Bank was imposed upon all others , so that there could be no excess of issue either by the National or State Banks . The result was a currency ...
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... balances remained in the Treasury . When suddenly its expenses rose from $ 150,000 to $ 3,000,000 daily , the alternative presented to the Government was a return to the money of the banks , or an issue of one of its own notes . At the ...
... balances remained in the Treasury . When suddenly its expenses rose from $ 150,000 to $ 3,000,000 daily , the alternative presented to the Government was a return to the money of the banks , or an issue of one of its own notes . At the ...
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... balances , the transfers of merchandise being almost wholly effected by symbols . These are always payable , whether so expressed or not , in metallic money , in case the holder prefers this to the merchandise they represent , and as a ...
... balances , the transfers of merchandise being almost wholly effected by symbols . These are always payable , whether so expressed or not , in metallic money , in case the holder prefers this to the merchandise they represent , and as a ...
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... balances , unless indeed a return be made to barbarism in which all methods by which the operations of society are now carried on are forgotten . They also serve to show what an elastic currency is If one that measures the means of the ...
... balances , unless indeed a return be made to barbarism in which all methods by which the operations of society are now carried on are forgotten . They also serve to show what an elastic currency is If one that measures the means of the ...
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Page 124 - 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 United States.
Page 150 - And it is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to continue the use of both gold and silver as standard money, and to coin both gold and silver into money of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, such equality to be secured through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as will insure the maintenance of the parity in value of the coins of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts.
Page 56 - I can not assent. Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power except where the acquiescence of the people and the States can be considered as well settled.
Page 78 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the states, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
Page 121 - That any holder of the coin authorized by this act may deposit the same with the treasurer or any assistant treasurer of the United States...
Page 29 - 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...
Page 56 - If the opinion of the supreme court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of this government. The congress, the executive, and the court, must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the constitution.
Page 193 - The substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money, replaces a very expensive instrument of commerce with one much less costly, and sometimes equally convenient. Circulation comes to be carried on by a new wheel, which it costs less both to erect and to maintain than the old one.
Page 79 - That the democratic party will faithfully abide by and uphold the principles laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798, and in the report of Mr. Madison to the Virginia Legislature in 1799 ; that it adopts those principles as constituting one of the main foundations of its political creed, and is resolved to carry them out in their obvious meaning and import.
Page 76 - That the federal government is one of limited powers, derived solely from the Constitution, and the grants of power shown therein ought to be strictly construed by all the departments and agents of the government ; and that it is inexpedient and dangerous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers.