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Briscoe Vs. Bank of Commonwealth of Kentucky

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1837

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  1. Sturges Vs. Crowninshield US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1819
  2. Ogden Vs. Saunders US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1827
  3. Briscoe v. Bank
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  4. of Commonwealth of Kentucky - 36 U.S. 257 (1837) U.S. Supreme Court Briscoe v. Bank
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  5. of Commonwealth of Kentucky, 36 U.S. 11 Pet. 257 257 (1837) Briscoe v. Bank
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  6. were issued in the early history of the colonies, afterwards the United States of America. The case of Craig v. State
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  7. is certain that no suit could have been maintained on this ground prior to the Constitution. The case of Craig v. State
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  8. obligations of an entirely different character. There is no principle decided by this Court in the case of Craig v. State
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  9. are sustained and strengthened by contrasting the present case with that. The case of Bank of the United States v. Planters'
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  10. Bank of Georgia, 9 Wheat. 904, cited. The case of Bank of the Commonwealth v. Wister
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  11. given in consideration of a loan of its notes. We consider this question as having been settled in the case of Lampton v. Bank
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  12. recognized and confirmed by a hundred cases that have since passed through this Court. The case of Craig v. Missouri
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  13. which required their emission precluded the possibility of their immediate redemption. In the case of Craig v. State
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  14. In the case Chisholm v. Georgia
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  15. Page 36 U. S. 323 It is insisted that the principles of this case were settled in the suit of Craig v. Missouri
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  16. substance but also as to their origin and effect. There is no principle decided by the Court in the case of Craig v. State
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  17. be given in the language of this Court used in former adjudications. In the case of Bank of the United States v. Planters'
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  18. In the case of Bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Wister
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  19. sovereign state. But the Court is of opinion that the question is no longer open here. The case of United States Bank v. Planters'
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  20. of the Constitution of the United States. In principle, it was thought to be decided by the case of Craig v. State
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  21. After the decision of the case of Craig v. State
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  22. Miller v. Rice
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  23. the prohibition. Let the impressive language of Mr. Chief Justice Marshall on this very point, in the case of Craig v. State
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  24. theoretical sense. But I trust that I shall abundantly show that the definition which was given in the case of Craig v. State
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  25. very history that any other definition of bills of credit than that given by the Supreme Court in the case of Craig v. State
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  26. be sufficient to quote the answer of the Chief Justice in delivering the opinion of the Court in the case of Craig v. State
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  27. The interpretation for which I contend is precisely that which was maintained by this Court in the case of Craig v. State
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  28. and civil liberty, I hope may never be established. I find no warrant for any such doctrine in the case of Craig v. State
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  29. before I yield my assent that the point has been so decided. The case relied on is Bank of Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Wister
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  30. And in confirmation of this view of the matter, a passage was cited from the opinion in United States Bank v. Planters'
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  31. and does not act in the character of a sovereign. That was the doctrine of this Court in United States Bank v. Planters'
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  32. It has so happened that I am the only member of the Court who composed one of the majority in the case of Craig v. Missouri
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  33. authority on which the opinion of the Court is based, so that my position is as peculiar in this as it was in Craig v. Missouri
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  34. I stand in some measure alone. A judge who now dissents may find reasons therefor in the opinion delivered in Craig v. Missouri
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  35. a very contrary conclusion as to mine. These considerations must be my apology for the course now taken. In Craig v. Missouri
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  36. evident that the judgment of this Court depended on this part of the law. With this explanation, the case of Craig v. Missouri
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  37. contracts existing when the law was enacted, which operates only on the obligation of posterior contracts, Ogden v. Saunders
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  38. For myself, I rest on the most solemn adjudications of this Court, as well prior as subsequent to the case of Craig v. Missouri
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  39. acts of Parliament, of the old and new Congress, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, I held, in Craig v. Missouri
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  40. U.S. Supreme Court Briscoe v. Bank
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  41. of Craig v. State
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  42. of Bank of the United States v. Planters'
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  43. of Bank of the Commonwealth v. Wister
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  44. of Lampton v. Bank
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  45. of Craig v. Missouri
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  46. Chisholm v. Georgia
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  47. of Bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Wister
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  48. of United States Bank v. Planters'
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  49. Miller v. Rice
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  50. Bank of Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Wister
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