[593] Spelled Sturgis on the manuscript records of the Supreme Court.
[594] 4 Wheaton, 192.
[595] 4 Wheaton, 192-93.
[596] 4 Wheaton, 194.
[597] Ib. 195.
[598] 4 Wheaton, 196.
[599] "No State shall ... emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any ... ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts."
[600] 4 Wheaton, 196-97.
[601] For the proceedings in the Constitutional Convention on this clause, see vol. iii, chap. x, of this work.
[602] 4 Wheaton, 197.