coin money
Example Sentences
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The states maintained the right to govern their residents, while the national government could declare war, coin money, and conduct foreign affairs but little else.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
Congress has several expressed powers related to money, including the power to tax, the power to borrow, the power to establish laws on bankruptcy, and the power to coin money.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
And then the Constitution requires Congress “To coin money, regulate the value thereof.”
From Forbes • Jun. 30, 2014
A decade ago, Corinthian Colleges was a Wall Street darling — a company that seemed to be able to coin money from the federal government and from desperate students.
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014
The power to "coin money" is, in my judgment, inconsistent with and repugnant to the existence of a power to make anything but coin a legal tender.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
