Posted on 11/30/2009 11:30:26 AM PST by Ohioan
America, as synonymous with the people who created the Federal Union known as the United States of America, was born to a gold standard; was intended, always, to remain on a gold standard! No reading of Article I, Section 10, of the Constitution, coupled with key provisions of Article I, Section 8, can lend itself to any other interpretation.
The first paragraph of Section 10 reads in relevant part:
No State shall . . . make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.
Note, there is no exception provided. Contrast that paragraph with the second and third paragraphs of the same section, which, while also limiting the powers of the States in certain particulars, make clear provision for exceptions:
No State shall, without the consent of the Congress . . . (Paragraph 2)
No State shall, without the consent of Congress . . . (Paragraph 3)
Article I, Section 8 reads in part:
The Congress shall have Power To . . . coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
Would it be rational to so interpret the above provisions, to allow the Federal Government to coin as money neither gold nor silver, or money not immediately convertible into same; when by those provisions, such non-convertible currency could not be used to discharge debt in any of the constituent States? One could go on with other aspects of the inherent incongruity in such a notion; with the absurdity, from a rational perspective, of what
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At some point it will be necessary to review a number of these types of SCOTUS decisions and find a way to codify the solutions into the Constitution.
I am not an attorney nor am I an accomplished Constitutional scholar. All I know about the Constitution is what is actually written in it, and it seems to me that it takes professional politicians (something the founders never intended) along with a bunch of lawyers who seem to think that there is a suicide pact hidden in there someplace, and that is what brings us to where we are today.
We are due for either a Constitutional Convention (subsequent to dismissing the Congress entirely) or a proper second Civil War in order to sort things out once and for all. At this point all a real Patriot can do is make sure when the militias start forming up, that you show up with something besides your Johnston in your hand...
Almost everything required--with a couple of exceptions addressed in my novel--is already in place, in the existing document. What is essential is to have a Supreme Court that actually does read the Constitution in context, without trying to fudge the meaning, or rationalize things into it, that simply are not there.
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Every account; every payment due to you or your loved ones; every policy of insurance, payable in dollars, etc., etc..
If the effect were immediate, we could be taking remedial actions; but because much of the new fiat money is held in reserves, is in effect dammed up, one can only speculate as to when the dam will break. In the meantime, every business still requires cash. People still need insurance policies--even though there may come a point where the benefits are virtually worthless. We still must measure future plans in "constant" dollars.
The problem is being largely ignored by the Federal establishment.
The accumulated fruits of many generations of American labor is at stake here, with incredibly significant implications for family fuutures.
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