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Exchequer Notes
If this advantage in the whole or any part of it could
be gained, would there be any harm in gaining it? — Let us
open in the first place, the great book of the Constitution —
The establishment of this monopoly on the part of Government is not merely
justifiable on the part of Government. It is imposed
on Government as a duty: and that not only by considerations
of expediency but by the principles of the Constitution.
Constitutional laws, to be the same in point of principle
The Constitution to be the same at all
times should vary as the times vary and adapt themselves itself
to the times.
One of the most unquestioned and most unobjectionable innocent
unimpeachable prerogatives of the Crown, one of in this as in all other instances acting under the
controul of Parliament, is the monopoly of the coinage.
When there was no currency but metal, the
Crown had the sole issuing of that currency. To metal
currency is now added paper currency: the Crown
therefore to preserve the prerogative in
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