Chief Justice Chase, with the three Democratic Justices held the Legal Tender Law unconstitutional, and declared that a law making anything but gold or silver legal tender for debts was neither appropriate nor plainly adapted to carrying on war, or any other end for which the National Government was erected.
Hoar recounts Chief Justice Chase's ruling against the Legal Tender Law, emphasizing its constitutional implications.
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