It is the fashion still, in some quarters, to speak, in spite of the decisions of the Supreme Court and the numerous State courts, to which I have referred, as if it were too clear for argument that Congress had no right to make the Government notes a legal tender.
Hoar critiques the ongoing debate about Congress's authority regarding legal tender despite judicial rulings.
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It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
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