The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the U.S. Constitution

Title page......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 3
Introduction......Page 9
I. Analysis......Page 10
A. The monetary powers and disabilities under English common law......Page 11
B. The monetary powers and disbalities of the States and the Continental Congress......Page 21
C. The monetary powers and disabilities in the Constitution......Page 30
D. Congressional and executive application of the monetary powers and disabilities......Page 121
II. Decisions of the United States Supreme Court on the monetary powers and disabilities......Page 204
A. The Legal Tender Cases......Page 208
B. The Gold Clause Cases......Page 219
III. Abuses of the monetary powers under contemporary Federal Reserve System......Page 223
A. The unconstitutionality of irredeemable, legal tender federal-reserve notes......Page 224
B. The unconstitutionality of the Federal Reserve System's corporative-state banking-monopoly......Page 290
IV. Reconstruction of a constitutional monetary system......Page 303
A. Provision of silver, gold, and token coinage......Page 304
B. Limitation of legal-tender character of federal-reserve notes......Page 312
C. Reformation of the national banking system......Page 315
Conclusion......Page 316