Article I, Section 8, Clause 5
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
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- cited bySuggestedCassius 9, ¶ 10
…to pay debts, to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States — that all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the Union — they shall have power to coin money, and to fix the value thereof, &c. — The impotency of the present Congress sufficiently indicates the necessity of granting greater powers to a federal head; and it is highly requisite such a head should be cnal'Ii'u…
Names, as part of what "Sect. 8 provides," the power "to coin money, and to fix the value thereof," which is this clause.
- quoted bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article I, ¶ 63
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign •oin, and fix the ſtandard of weights and meaſures;
The paragraph prints Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the Constitution as signed; the quoted words are the same as the clause's (apart from capitals and the long s), though the pamphlet's punctuation differs in places.
- quoted byReviewedFederalist No. 42, ¶ 12
I shall confine myself to a cursory review of the remaining powers comprehended under this third description, to wit: to regulate commerce among the several States and the Indian tribes; to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the current coin and secureties of the United States; to fix the standard of weights and measures; to establish a uniform rule…
Reproduces the wording of this clause in its list of the third class of powers, along with the power "to fix the standard of weights and measures" from the same clause.
On Article I, Section 8 as a whole
- cited bySuggestedHouse, January 6, 1865, ¶ 34
- cited bySuggestedHouse, August 27, 1962, ¶ 261
- cited bySuggestedSenate, June 12, 1911, ¶ 292
- cited bySuggestedSenate, February 16, 1933 (2), ¶ 291
- cited bySuggestedSenate, March 27, 1962 (3), ¶ 153
- cited bySuggestedMassachusetts convention, January 21, 1788, ¶ 31
- cited bySuggestedPennsylvania convention, December 4, 1787, ¶ 51
- cited bySuggestedRemarks on the New Plan, ¶ 6
- cited byFederalist No. 82, note 2
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