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To: Iconoclast2
Congress’ power to “coin money” is not a power to force people to take paper...

The full quote is "to coin money and regulate the value thereof."

125 posted on 08/23/2007 2:42:33 PM PDT by Petronski (Why would Romney lie about Ronald Reagan's record?)
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To: Petronski

Correct, but regulating the value of coined money, which has a specific historical meaning discussed elsewhere in the thread, is still not the power to force people to take the Government’s paper.

Perhaps after the Nation’s experiment with fiat money comes to the same place as every other such experiment in history, they can do an even clearer job of writing the Constitution next time around.


129 posted on 08/23/2007 3:12:34 PM PDT by Iconoclast2 (Two wings of the same bird of prey . . .)
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