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Article I Section 10
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3. State governments may not issue currency for the purpose of paying debts unless that currency is in gold and silver. This provision came in reaction to the laxness of some state governments that issued depreciated or, in some cases, worthless currency during the period of the Revolution. This provision marked the beginning -- but only the beginning-- of the creation of a single national currency.
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4. During the period of the Confederation, many states, eager raise their own revenues. levied tariffs on goods entering their ports from other states. The new Constitution reserved the power of taxing imports to the federal government alone, preventing states from enacting their own tariffs.
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1. Individual states may not enter into separate treaties with foreign nations.
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The provisions in Article I, Section 10, stipulate those thongs that the state governments are prohibited from doing. The most important of theses are:
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2. The government of the states are bound by the same requirements as the federal government in the prohibition of bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, laws impairing obligations on contracts, and, granting titles of nobility.
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5. Although the individual states were permitted to maintain their own militias for the maintenance of order within their boundaries, the Constitution prohibits states from maintaining either a standing army or a navy in time of peace; it also prohibits states from entering agreements with other states or foreign powers for military purposes.
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