Posted on 01/20/2021 9:04:34 PM PST by weston
Great news, Jem. Prayers continue.
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Sick.
I’ve received AT LEAST 5 fundraising emails from the GOP today alone!!
Not getting a penny.
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.
U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 10
Constitutional Silver and Gold
Constitutional silver and gold is often used to describe the legal tender coins that were issued and circulated by the United States. These coins would be the American Gold Coins minted prior to President Roosevelt’s gold confiscation act of 1933 (Executive Order 6102) as well as silver dimes, quarters, and half-dollars before 1965. While the United States had a proud heritage of minting coins for circulation that were composed of gold and silver, this was never a requirement set forth in the US Constitution.
Reasons for the Misconception
The main reason for the misconception that constitutional silver and gold is a requirement for US coinage comes from several clauses in the US Constitution that seem to conflict with each other.
Article I, Section 8 lays out the powers explicitly granted to the US Congress. Among these powers granted to the US Congress was the power to “Coin Money”. There is, however, nothing in this article that states that the coined money must be made of gold and silver.
The next piece of the puzzle that accounts for the misconception surrounding constitutional silver and gold is the Coinage act of 1792. With this act, Congress regulated that gold, silver, and copper would be used as legal tender and even set forth the amount of metal that every coin would contain. For instance, a $10 gold coin was known as an Eagle and was to contain 16 grams of pure gold. The Coinage Act of 1792 set for the foundation of gold and silver in US coins for many years to come but it was never part of the US Constitution.
Many times when people say that constitutional silver and gold is mandated by the US Constitution they quote Article I, Section 10, which reads, “[No state shall] make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts;” In the infancy of the United States, before the constitution was ratified, there were many problems with individual states issuing their own debt. This clause in the US Constitution was meant to legitimize the US Government to foreign lenders by preventing individual states from taking on debt and repaying with fiat currencies.
The idea that constitutional silver and gold is mandated is wrong but that does not mean that proponents of sound money are wrong for wanting the US government to adhere to gold and silver to maintain wealth and prosperity amongst its citizens. In the early years, when the United States used gold and silver for the basis of its currency, inflation remained relatively non-existent. As you can see from the graph, when the United States abandoned the gold standard the inflationary woes began.
https://veldtgold.com/constitutional-silver-gold/
The basic silver coin of the Roman Empire was the denarius. By decree of Caesar Augustus in 15 b.c.e, It was nearly pure silver, 95–98%, and had a fixed weight and value in relationship to the rest of the Roman monetary system. Over the next 270 years, the silver content of the denarius declined gradually and then precipitously to about 2%. This degradation occurred more rapidly in the provinces than in Rome. The microstructures of a series of Roman denarii taken from thi stime period are used to illustrate these changes.
The final stage of the denarius was a duplex plated coin with a neatly copper core and a silver surface. This produced a lower-cost coin with an apparent value equal to the previous ones. Eventually, the surface coating was so thin that it quickly rubbed off after the coin left the mint. By this time (280 c.e.), the silver coinage of the empire had almost totally lost its value and had to be reconstituted by Diocletion. Among the coins studied is an early duplex plated denarius of Caesar Augustus, probably an early forgery produced during his lifetime in clear violation of his edict.
The decline and fall of the roman denarius
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/104458039290116Y
Always best to deal in facts.
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In 2019, Mace successfully advocated for the inclusion of exceptions for rape and incest in a fetal heartbeat abortion ban bill that passed the South Carolina state house. In a speech on the state house floor, Mace revealed that she had been raped at age 16. She has said she opposes abortion but does not believe the government has the right to tell a victim of rape or incest they do not have the right to an abortion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mace
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Trump resigns from Screen Actors Guild: ‘I no longer wish to be associated with your union’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3931687/posts
I used to be able to get tv stations on that site...then they insisted that I download their VPN for a fee.
I haven’t taken our Trump sign or flag down.
“MSDNC”
ROFL!!!
Ha! The insurrectionists were already in the Capitol, counting electoral votes! It sure looks like a coup to me.
I hope I get something in the mail. I plan on sending play money back.
Labor unions are known to use violence to get what they want, it’s so hypocritical for them to get on the cancel Trump wagon. Loved his letter.
How in the world can these people be fair judges when they have already decided that he is guilty? As you can see here, House Democrats are demanding that Donald Trump testify in his own defense, because they’ve already decided that he did it. Check out this tweet from Catherine Herridge of CBS.
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