Via Legal History Blog, an interesting history of what was once "the most litigated provision in the Constitution and...the chief restriction on state authority" but which ultimately fell victim to New Deal constitutionalism.
Article I, section 10, clause 1 -
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
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