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JUILLIARD V. GREENMAN,

JUILLIARD V. GREENMAN, 110 U.S. 421 (1884), was a case in which the Supreme Court upheld the implied power of Congress to make U.S. government notes legal tender — and therefore money — in peacetime as well as in wartime. In Hepburn v. Griswold (1870), the Court had held the legal-tender acts of 1862 and 1863 unconstitutional, but, in 1871, the Court upheld the legal-tender acts as a war measure. Juilliard v. Greenman upheld the acts without reference to the war power. In this case, the Court ...

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