This book analyzes nine Supreme Court decisions that dealt primarily with money, monetary events and monetary policy.

1. The current state of monetary affairs in the United States; 2. Emergence of money in civilized societies; 3. Bimetallic monetary systems and appearance of a national bank; 4. McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819, and the Second Bank of the United States; 5. 'To coin money and regulate the value thereof'; 6. Craig v. Missouri, 1830; 7. Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky, 1837; 8. Government issues of treasury notes and greenbacks; 9. Track of the legal tender bills through Congress, 1862-3; 10. Bronson v. Rodes, 1868; 11. Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 1869; 12. Hepburn v. Griswold, 1870: the legal tender issue; 13. Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis, 1871: reversal of Hepburn; 14. Monetary affairs in the United States, 1871-83; 15. Juilliard v. Greenman, 1884: the final legal tender decision; 16. Judicial commentaries on the legal tender cases: sovereignty; 17. Other commentaries on the legal tender cases; 18. The [Gold] Currency Act of 1900: monetary affairs in the United States before 1914; 19. The Federal Reserve System, 1914-29; 20. The great monetary contraction, 1929-33; 21. Gold! Where was it? What happened to it?; 22. The Gold Clause Cases, 1934-5; 23. Gold and money in the twentieth century; 24. A Constitutional monetary system.