[BHI2025]

Executive Summary: 1. Those in power oppress those without. 2. Though there are many forms of oppression, the favorite form is the powerful stealing money/property from the weak. 3. Under the US Constitution, the majority, the common man, the poor, hold the lion’s share of political power. Therefore, it is the poor who must be checked and balanced and watched and handcuffed, lest they use their political power to steal from the rich. 4. The Constitutional Convention was called for EXACTLY this reason. Poor farmers all over the country were using paper money laws to blatantly steal from their wealthy creditors. You have never heard of the “paper money crisis” but it is THE REASON the Constitution was written (see quotations from James Madison and Melancton Smith below).

[BHI2025]

John Adams on why the Constitution was designed to keep poor people from stealing from rich people. Note the starkly religious tones he uses when talking about YOUR MONEY.

“Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other moveables. Would Mr. Nedham[ ] be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame, or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or, at least in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished, first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of everything be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If “Thou shalt not covet,” and “Thou shalt not steal,” were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”

[Pythion.net]

" Though you’ve probably never heard of it, the paper money crisis is the reason we have the Constitution

If you know where the phrase "Not worth a Continental" came from (I do), then you have heard.

[Tell It Right]

Thanks for gathering that information together and writing it!

[Vaduz]

The Welfare Program That Led Directly To The Creation Of The US Constitution.

Where does it say that in the Constitution.

The 13 states were not as one it was a loose knit deal.

[Carry_Okie]

The biggest problem with States issuing paper money was that it virtually destroyed the ability of the government to borrow from European creditors in order to finance a navy. The French in particular worried that “The United States” could not pay its bills in real money. Hence was Hamilton’s early and prominent role in the Federal Convention.

[philman_36]

Articles of Confederation The united states, in congress assembled, shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states - fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the united states... Then, as now, EXPLICIT constraints were ignored by legislators.
Gold and silver COIN were to be the economic mainstay, not fiat currency.

AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE AMERICAN BANKING SYSTEM. William M. Gouge 1833

Credit, the great rival of cash, is completely controlled by the Banks, and distributed by them as suits their discretion. Then, and now.