 | United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee - 1966 - 860 pages
...cannot be questioned that Congress may, constitutionally, secure the benefit of it to the people — Congress may restrain, by suitable enactments, the...uniform currency for the country must be futile." 75 US 548-549. Commenting on the statute designed to force the withdrawal of State bank notes from... | |
 | David P. Currie - 1992 - 518 pages
...legal tender to foreign coins and outlawed counterfeiting, Congress might therefore "restrain . . . the circulation as money of any notes not issued under...sound and uniform currency for the country must be futile."239 All of this seems more than a little glib and was certainly generous in its interpretation... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Wilson - 1992 - 292 pages
...Congress may, constitutionally, secure the benefit of it to the people by appropriate legislation. . . . Without this power, indeed, its attempts to secure a sound and uniform currency for the country would be futile.8 Chief Justice Chase ruled clearly that legislation securing the federal government's... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - 390 pages
...legal tender to foreign corns and outlawed counterfeiting, Congress might therefore "restrain . . . the circulation as money of any notes not issued under...sound and uniform currency for the country must be futile."*44 All of this seems more than a little glib and was certainly gen eroua in its interpretation... | |
 | James Willard Hurst - 2001 - 392 pages
...service the national economy. The allowable means must match the desired national impact. "To this end . . . Congress may restrain, by suitable enactments,...uniform currency for the country must be futile." 208 The policy intention of the 1865 tax was broader than a ban on state bank notes as such. Though... | |
 | Joseph Francis Menez, John R. Vile - 2004 - 660 pages
...the whole country, it cannot be questioned that Congress may, constitutionally, secure the benefits of it to the people by appropriate legislation. To...uniform currency for the country must be futile." Collector v. Day (Buffington v. Day), 11 Wallace (78 US) 113; 20 L. Ed. 122 (1871) Facts — Judge... | |
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Having thus, in the exercise of undisputed constitutional powers, undertaken to provide a currency for the whole country, it cannot be questioned that Congress may, constitutionally, secure the benefit of it to the people by appropriate legislation. To... 
