Constitutional Money : A Review of the Supreme Court's Monetary Decisions
ISBN: 9781107032545 | 1107032547
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/31/2013
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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 States, some of which were blatant misjudgments stimulated by political pressures. The cases included in this book begin with McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819 and end with the Gold Clause Cases in 1934-35. Constitutional Money examines three institutions that were pr... MORE
| 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, and the Second Bank of the United States | |
| 'To coin money and regulate the value thereof' | |
| Craig v. Missouri, 1830 | |
| Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky, 1837 | |
| Government issu... MORE | |
| Track of the legal tender bills through Congress, 1862-3 | |
| 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, 1871-83 | |
| Juilliard v. Greenman, 1884: the final legal tender decision | |
| Judicial commentaries on the legal tender cases: sovereignty | |
| Other commentaries on the legal tender cases | |
| The [Gold] Currency Act of 1900: monetary affairs in the United States before 1914 | |
| The Federal Reserve System, 1914-29 | |
| The great monetary contraction, 1929-33 | |
| Gold! where was it? what happened to it? | |
| The Gold Clause Cases, 1934-5 | |
| Gold and money in the twentieth century | |
| A Constitutional monetary system | |
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