Talk:Bills of credit

Disputed
Statement: "The painful experience of the runaway inflation and collapse of the Continental dollar prompted the delegates to the Constitutional Convention to include the Contract Clause into the United States Constitution, so that the individual states could not issue bills of credit or "make any Thing, but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts." This restriction of bills of credit was extended to the Federal government, as the power to "emit bills" from the Articles of Confederation was abolished, leaving Congress with the power "to borrow money on credit.""

A series of Supreme Court cases, the Legal Tender Cases, contradict this statement that the Federal government does not have the power to issue bills of credit. The court opinion in Julliard v. Greenman affirms these decisions throughout the document: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/110/421

The US Treasury issued bills of credit for a century starting in 1861 (this very article discusses this, so the inclusion of the above claim is doubly odd), and their constitutionality was affirmed repeatedly. FredericktheWise (talk) 14:11, 19 June 2024 (UTC)