Two years after joining the Court, He wrote the majority opinion in "Juilliard v. Greenman" (1884), the last of the post–Civil War "Legal Tender Cases", which reaffirmed that Congress did have the power to issue paper money as legal tender. The 8–1 decision rested largely on prior court cases as well as an assessment of what the Framers of the Constitution intended to achieve (i.e. their original intent) through their grant of certain "Enumerated powers" to Congress in Article I, Section 8.