Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

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• holding that federal legislation which rendered unenforceable provisions in con tracts requiring payment in gold coin was a constitutional exercise of Congress' power to create a money system, despite its effect of invalidating certain provisions of otherwise enforceable contracts
• finding that Congress acted within the scope of its Constitutional powers in enacting the 1933 Statute
• finding that Congress acted within the scope of its Constitutional powers in enacting the 1933 Statute
• upholding 1933 act as valid exercise of Congressional power to establish a monetary system and determining that enforcement of gold clauses was incompatible with public interest
• upholding 1933 act as valid exercise of Congressional power to establish a monetary system and determining that enforcement of gold clauses was incompatible with public interest
• explaining the validity and effect of federal acts providing for the issuance of currency, and affirming the status of Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations as legal tender

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