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Incontestably the Missouri loan certificates are just such bills of credit.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Incontestably the Missouri loan certificates are just such bills of credit.”
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Beveridge asserts that Missouri loan certificates qualify as bills of credit, which are prohibited by the Constitution.
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