But it then asserts that congress has this additional, and wholly different, power, to wit, the power to declare that this alteration in the value of the coins shall work a corresponding change in all existing contracts for the payment of money.
Spooner highlights the problematic assertion that Congress can change contract terms based on currency value.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
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