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To: JesseWatters

Jesse makes a good point that Paul is dead wrong when he claims that the Constitution requires all US money be gold or silver.


8 posted on 09/08/2011 5:57:11 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

Jesse makes a good point that Paul is dead wrong when he claims that the Constitution requires all US money be gold or silver.
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Good point. Also, in the early days of our Republic, people voluntarily used and accepted bank notes for money when the supply of gold and silver was not enough to allow credit to expand to meet business needs, and people did not think that anything unconstitutional was going on.


20 posted on 09/08/2011 7:53:14 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (Socon-Econ)
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