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..... have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority or by that of the respective states; fixing the standard of weight and measures throughout the united states; regulating the trade and management of all affairs with the indians, not members of any of the states: provided that the legislative right ..... question. the response must be, so far as the punishment of the plaintiff in error is concerned, in favour of the one or the other. not to feel the full weight of this momentous subject would evidence an ignorance of that high responsibility which is devolved upon this tribunal, and upon its humblest member, in giving a decision in this case .....
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..... constitution, it is declared that congress shall have power, among other things, "to coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures"; "to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the united states." 1 stat. 14. by the twentieth section of ..... by the constitution for the very purpose, as assigned by the framers of that instrument, of creating and preserving the uniformity and purity of such a standard of value, and on account of the impossibility which was foreseen of otherwise preventing the inequalities and the confusion necessarily incident to different views of policy, ..... the constitution authorized to perform they are, when the public good requires it, bound to perform, and on this principle, having emitted a circulating medium, a standard of value page 50 u. s. 568 indispensable for the purposes of the community, and for the action of the government itself, they are accordingly authorized and .....
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..... the state laws, be indictable for forgery as well as liable to impeachment? so, if congress, as it might, should pass a law fixing the standard of weights and measures, and imposing a penalty for sealing false weights and false measures, but leaving to the states the matter of inspecting and sealing those used by the people, would not an offender, filling the .....
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..... eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the united states, viz., "1 to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures "; "to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the united states" does not prevent a state from passing a law to punish the ..... think it manifest that the language of the constitution, by its proper signification, is limited to the facts, or to the faculty in congress of coining and of stamping the standard of value upon what the government creates or shall adopt and of punishing the offense of producing a false representation of what may have been so created or adopted. the .....
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..... greater than 60%, flour will gain moisture, and if the humidity is less than 60%, it will lose moisture. [ footnote 36 ] the federal net weight labeling standard permits variations from stated weight caused by this gain or loss of moisture. packages that meet the federal labeling requirements [ footnote 37 ] page 430 u. s. 542 and that ..... packaging and labeling act (fpla), 80 stat. 1296, as amended, 15 u.s.c. 1451-1461. for the reasons stated below, we conclude that the federal weight labeling standard for flour is the same as that for meat. the fdca prohibits the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any food [ footnote 22 ] that ..... u. s. 520 the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act (fdca) and the fair packaging and labeling act (fpla), which impose the same federal weight labeling standard for flour as the fmia imposes for meat. the fdca and implementing regulations permit the same kind of reasonable variations from the packaging requirements as does the fmia .....
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..... , then, is to ascertain, in the instant cases, whether there are any constitutionally cognizable principles which would justify departures from the basic standard of equality among voters in the apportionment of seats in state legislatures. iii a predominant consideration in determining whether a state's legislative apportionment ..... representation schemes once fair and equitable become archaic and outdated. but the basic principle of representative government remains, and must remain, unchanged -- the weight of a citizen's vote cannot be made to depend on where he lives. population is, of necessity, the starting point for consideration and the ..... constitutional considerations, and were addressed to rather distinct problems. but neither are they wholly inapposite. gray, though not determinative here, since involving the weighting of votes in statewide elections, established the basic principle of equality among voters within a state, and held that voters cannot be classified, constitutionally .....
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..... of 4, 5 required that covered jurisdictions obtain "preclearance" from the department of justice before altering any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting." 1973c. the act was immediately and notably successful in removing barriers to registration and ensuring access to the ..... another, or any other such electoral mechanism or method of election that might reduce the weight or influence a ballot may have in controlling the outcome of an election. of course, this interpretation of the terms "standard, practice, or procedure" effectively means that 2(a) does not provide for any claims ..... of what we have called vote "dilution." but that is precisely the result suggested by the text of the statute. section 2(a) nowhere uses the term "vote dilution" or suggests that its goal is to ensure that votes are given their proper "weight .....
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..... business. this conclusion renders it unnecessary to consider whether the provisions of the state act are in contravention of the regulations provided in the federal grain standards act, as was held by the circuit court of appeals. the decree of the circuit court of appeals is affirmed. * "authority is given to ..... and burden upon interstate commerce, and therefore violates the commerce clause of the federal constitution; second, that the state statute is in conflict with the federal grain standards act of august 11, 1916, c. 313, 39 stats. 482, 485. upon filing its bill, complainant moved for a temporary injunction, which application was ..... licensed to inspect, grade and weigh may buy grain before it has been officially inspected. the standards of quality and condition established by the secretary of agriculture were adopted under regulations issued by the state inspector of grades, weights and measures, and all state inspectors (including licensed buyers) were required to observe those grades .....
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..... of the united states on the grounds, first, that it interferes with and burdens interstate commerce, and secondly that it conflicts with the united states grain standards act, c. 313, 39 stat. 482. an injunction preventing its enforcement pending the suit was granted by the district court, three judges sitting, and ..... of profit, confiscation of valuable dockage, fraud and other unlawful practices;" declares that whenever grades, weights, and measures for wheat are established by the secretary of agriculture under the united states grain standards act, they shall become the grades, weights, and measures of page 268 u. s. 197 the state, and concludes by saying: " ..... in establishing such grades, weights, and measures, the value of dockage shall be considered, and the buyer shall .....
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..... heretofore or hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues, except that gold coins, when below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law for the single piece, shall be legal tender only at valuation in proportion to their actual ..... grantor as rent "a quantity of gold which shall be equal in amount to fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars of the gold coin of the united states of the standard of weight and fineness of the year 1894, or the equivalent of this commodity in united states currency." in 1894 and continuously thereafter till january 31, 1934, the statutory gold ..... pay as rent "a quantity of gold which shall be equal in amount to" a stated number of "dollars of the gold coin of the united states of the standard of weight and fineness of the year 1894, or the equivalent of this commodity in united states currency." in 1894 and continuously thereafter till january 31, 1934, the statutory gold .....
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