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8/8/2019 Roger Sherman: "A Caveat Against Injustice or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of Exchange." http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/roger-sherman-a-caveat-against-injustice-or-an-inquiry-into-the-evils-of 1/15 A Caveat Against Injustice or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of  Exchange, WHEREIN is considered, whether the Bills of Credit on the  Neighboring Governments, are a legal Tender in Payment of Money, In the COLONY of CONNECTICUT for Debts due  by Book, and otherwise, where the Contract Mentions only Old-Tenor Money.  by Roger Sherman author of Article 1 Section 10 of the United States Constitution, “No State shall make any Thing but Gold and Silver Coin a tender in Payment of Debts” Original publication, 1752 Source of scans: http://www.rogershermansociety.org/caveat2.htm http://www.rogershermansociety.org/images/caveat.zip I (Michael Makovi) have taken these scans and pasted them into OpenOffice, with all pictures preserved at 100% of their original size (“original” meaning the size of the JPEG images, not necessarily the actual printed pages from where the JPEG scans were taken.)

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Page 1: Roger Sherman: "A Caveat Against Injustice or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of Exchange."

8/8/2019 Roger Sherman: "A Caveat Against Injustice or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of Exchange."

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/roger-sherman-a-caveat-against-injustice-or-an-inquiry-into-the-evils-of 1/15

A Caveat Against Injustice

or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of 

 Exchange,

WHEREIN is considered, whether the Bills of Credit on the Neighboring Governments, are a legal Tender in Payment of 

Money, In the COLONY of CONNECTICUT for Debts due

 by Book, and otherwise, where the Contract Mentions only

Old-Tenor Money.

 by Roger Shermanauthor of Article 1 Section 10 of the United States

Constitution, “No State shall make any Thing but

Gold and Silver Coin a tender in Payment of Debts”

Original publication, 1752

Source of scans:

http://www.rogershermansociety.org/caveat2.htm  →

http://www.rogershermansociety.org/images/caveat.zip

I (Michael Makovi) have taken these scans and pasted them

into OpenOffice, with all pictures preserved at 100% of their original size (“original” meaning the size of the JPEG images,

not necessarily the actual printed pages from where the JPEG

scans were taken.)

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8/8/2019 Roger Sherman: "A Caveat Against Injustice or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of Exchange."

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8/8/2019 Roger Sherman: "A Caveat Against Injustice or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of Exchange."

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