“You can’t have a Free Republic when its alleged adherents want to throw the Constitution (which requires gold and silver money) into the trash can.”
Can you please point out to all of us fake american apostates precisely where the Constitution says “you have to have gold and silver backing US currency”?
Would you be referring to this, from Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1?
“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.”
You did see that “No State” part, didn’t you? As in, no state of the Union will go off and do those things? I didn’t see the Federal government mentioned anyway in that clause, did you?
In fact, I can’t find anything in the Constitution that expressly tells the government how they have to back our currency.
If you want to understand why the plain language and history of the Constitution compel the conclusion that the Founders never empowered Congress to issue paper money, you ought to be reading the rest of the thread. There are three different articles posted there explaining it.
It is really pretty simple. Congress’ power to “coin money” is not a power to force people to take paper, and anyone who understands what a government of limited powers means ought to be able to get this. There is perhaps no single issue (the idea of limited, delegated powers) more important to a Free Republic.