Constitutional money a review of the Supreme Court's monetary decisions

"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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Autor principal: Timberlake, Richard H. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2013.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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  • The current state of monetary affairs in the United States
  • Emergence of money in civilized societies
  • Bimetallic monetary systems and appearance of a national bank
  • McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
  • To coin money and regulate the value thereof--
  • Craig v. Missouri, 1830
  • Briscoe v. The Bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1837
  • Federal Government issues of treasury notes and greenbacks
  • The track of the legal tender bills through Congress
  • Bronson v. Rodes, 1868
  • Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 1869
  • Hepburn v. Griswold, 1870 : the legal tender issue
  • Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis, 1871 : reversal of Hepburn
  • Monetary affairs in the United States, 1871-1883
  • The third legal tender case : Juilliard v. Greenman, 1884
  • Commentaries on the legal tender decicions : the issue of sovereignty
  • Other commentaries on the legal tender cases
  • The (Gold) Currency Act of 1900 and monetary affairs in the United States before 1914
  • The Federal reserve system, 1914-1929
  • The great contraction, 1929-33
  • Gold! : Where did it go? : Why didn't the gold standard work?
  • The gold clause cases, 1934-1935
  • Gold and monetary affairs in the twentieth century
  • A constitutional monetary system.