Constitutional money : a review of the Supreme Court's monetary decisions / / Richard H. Timberlake.
"This book reviews nine Supreme Court cases and decisions that dealt with monetary laws and gives a summary history of monetary events and policies as they were affected by the Court's decisions. Several cases and decisions had notable consequences on the monetary history of the United Sta...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 247 p. |
| Notes: | "A Cato Institute book." |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The current state of monetary affairs in the United States; 2. Emergence of money in civilized societies; 3. Bimetallic monetary systems and appearance of a national bank; 4. McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819, and the Second Bank of the United States; 5. 'To coin money and regulate the value thereof'; 6. Craig v. Missouri, 1830; 7. Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky, 1837; 8. Government issues of treasury notes and greenbacks; 9. Track of the legal tender bills through Congress, 1862-3; 10. Bronson v. Rodes, 1868; 11. Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 1869; 12. Hepburn v. Griswold, 1870: the legal tender issue; 13. Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis, 1871: reversal of Hepburn; 14. Monetary affairs in the United States, 1871-83; 15. Juilliard v. Greenman, 1884: the final legal tender decision; 16. Judicial commentaries on the legal tender cases: sovereignty; 17. Other commentaries on the legal tender cases; 18. The [Gold] Currency Act of 1900: monetary affairs in the United States before 1914; 19. The Federal Reserve System, 1914-29; 20. The great monetary contraction, 1929-33; 21. Gold! Where was it? What happened to it?; 22. The Gold Clause Cases, 1934-5; 23. Gold and money in the twentieth century; 24. A Constitutional monetary system.