If a fear be indulged that the Government may be tempted to run into excess in its issues at any future day, it seems to me that no such apprehension can reasonably be entertained until all confidence in the representatives of the States and of the people, as well as of the people themselves, shall be lost.
Tyler argues that concerns about government overreach in issuing currency are unfounded if public trust remains intact.
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