Money and Its Laws: Embracing a History of Monetary Theories, and a History of the Currencies of the United States |
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... assumed to be in the nature of demonstrations . That they wholly contradict those laid down in the books , which have been accepted as funda- mental truths for more than two thousand years , is due to the fact that a subject which could ...
... assumed to be in the nature of demonstrations . That they wholly contradict those laid down in the books , which have been accepted as funda- mental truths for more than two thousand years , is due to the fact that a subject which could ...
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... assumed to have demonstrated the superiority of the former 158 No such demonstration possible . . . . 158 • The opposing doctrines not the result of natural laws , but of conditions Those possessed of superior capital and skill , Free ...
... assumed to have demonstrated the superiority of the former 158 No such demonstration possible . . . . 158 • The opposing doctrines not the result of natural laws , but of conditions Those possessed of superior capital and skill , Free ...
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... assumed insulation of Eng- land 172 174 His argument puerile to the last degree Divisibility the attribute fitting gold and silver to serve as money 175 176 Coins render ideas of value more precise than mathematical statements . If ...
... assumed insulation of Eng- land 172 174 His argument puerile to the last degree Divisibility the attribute fitting gold and silver to serve as money 175 176 Coins render ideas of value more precise than mathematical statements . If ...
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... assumed for the Act wholly imaginary Committees of Parliament of 1848 . 306 • 307 Lord Overstone again examined . 307 The Act " has verified every principle upon which it was established " 307 • " It failed , however , from two ...
... assumed for the Act wholly imaginary Committees of Parliament of 1848 . 306 • 307 Lord Overstone again examined . 307 The Act " has verified every principle upon which it was established " 307 • " It failed , however , from two ...
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... assumed , and mode of their payment 469 Opposition to these measures . 469 Chiefly directed against the Bank 469 - Ground of this objection , government not one of paramount powers Country divided geographically 470 470 Jefferson ...
... assumed , and mode of their payment 469 Opposition to these measures . 469 Chiefly directed against the Bank 469 - Ground of this objection , government not one of paramount powers Country divided geographically 470 470 Jefferson ...
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absurd accommodation bills Adam Smith amount of coin Aristotle assumed Bank of England bank-notes bankers bills given borrowed bullion capital circulation Committee commodities consequently consumers consumption contraction convertible corresponding amount cost country Banks credits issued debt demand deposits depreciated discharge discount distribution Economists effect equal excess exchange exportation foreign gold and silver greater hand holders Hume immediately increase industry issuers kind labor latter liabilities loans Lord Overstone loss means measure ment merchandise merchants nature necessary never nominal value notes and credits operations paid paper currency paper money parties payable payment Political Economy possessed precious metals principle produce profit proper purchase quantity ratio reason received reduced rency represent reserves revenue rule says securities Smith society specie speedily supply supposed symbolic currency thing tion trade transactions usury value of money Wealth of Nations whole wholly
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Page 465 - That every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.
Page 2 - Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 505 - The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.
Page 143 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Page 505 - Each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the house of representatives, of the senate, and of the President, to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the supreme judges, when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Page 472 - Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 143 - Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury : that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 473 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 488 - 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 510 - ... few/ and to govern by corruption or force, are aware of its^ power, and prepared to employ it. Your banks now furnish your only circulating medium, and money is plenty or scarce, according to the quantity of notes issued by them. While they have capitals not greatly disproportioned to each other,, they are competitors in business, and no one of them can exercise dominion over the rest ; and although, in the present state of the currency, these banks may and do operate injuriously upon the habits...