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Can you name one state of the Union that has the power to confiscate the gold of its citizens? Neither can I. If not one state has the power, then what makes the representatives of the states think that if they get together in one big room, they can do it? It is as if one burglar wants to break into someone's house and steal his property, but is having second thoughts about the illegality of it. So he gets 50 of his acquaintances together, all criminals and burglars, thinking that their number will make the robbery OK. Something to think about. How can the federal government have the power to take the citizens' gold when no one in Congress individually nor the governors of the states have that power?

In other words, the only powers the federal government has are those which the states had first prior to delegating them. Confiscation of gold was not one of the powers the states had. Therefore, there is no way they federal government can have that power.