Posted on 08/01/2019 7:29:33 PM PDT by Perseverando
He was the only person to sign all four of America's founding documents:
-Articles of Association-1774,
-Declaration of Independence-1776,
-Articles of Confederation-1777,
-U.S. Constitution-1787.
Who was he?
Roger Sherman.
At age 19, Roger Sherman's father died and he supported his family as a shoe cobbler, helping his two younger brothers to attend college and become clergymen.
Roger Sherman was a surveyor and merchant, but when a neighbor needed legal advice, he studied to help, only to be inspired to become a lawyer.
Sherman was elected a state senator, a judge and a delegate to the Continental Congress.
He was on the Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, along with Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Livingston.
Roger Sherman is pictured second from the left in John Trumbull's famous painting which hangs in the Capitol Rotunda.
He helped draft the Articles of Confederation and helped draft the instructions given to an embassy headed to Canada, which stated:
"You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion.
And ... that all civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination."
On October 17, 1777, when news that British General Burgoyne had surrendered 6,000 British troops to American General Horatio Gates after the Battle of Saratoga, Roger Sherman exclaimed:
"This is the Lord's doing, and marvelous in our eyes!"
Sherman made 138 speeches at the Constitutional Convention.
He helped to draft the New Jersey Plan and the Connecticut Compromise, which broke the deadlock between how the large States and small States would be represented in the new government.
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He had that clause successfully planted in the Constitution. Not that any attention is paid to it.
L
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It was a complicated business. A lot of founders got burned, not only with the inflationary paper Continental Currency, but some kind of switcharoo went on, lenders could at their option demand payment in gold, which was in short supply. Mortgage laws were different too, they were generally something like 7 years max, calleable at any time.
So if someone wanted your house or ranch, they’d go to the bank and pay off the note, and then demand payment in full right now.
They also had Debtor’s prisons, a couple different kinds, both bad, one type for people who owed what we would call unsecured debt today. It was on the prisoner to arrange for things like food and clothing.
And unlike today, when someone passed, the heir to the estate was also liable for the estates debts. These did not “die” with the decedent. How would you like to be responsible for your parents credit card debt upon their demise? Maybe they were frugal and invested well, though what if they weren’t, think how you’d feel anout that, and then you got thrown in prison for being unable to pay?
So “funny money” was definitely distrusted, on top of all the other BS.
Just a simple cobbler from Connecticut.
Which clause?
Article 1, Section 8.
“Congress shall have the power to COIN money.”
L
“Paper is poverty ... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
Like bitcoins today.
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