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To learn about the “Money” power of the States: An Introductory Primer on the Constitutional Authority of the States to Adopt an Alternative Currency here.
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“Legal Tender Law”: Opting Out

"Legal Tender Law": Opting OutIt is the general consensus among economists that the "Legal Tender Law" (Title 12 of The United States Code, Section...
Blackstone Common Law

The Monetary Powers and Disabilities in the Pre-Constitutional Period

As a Rule of Constitutional Construction: The first step towards elucidating the true meaning of the Constitution’s monetary provisions is not to consult decisions of...
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The Civil War and “Bills of Credit”

The Civil War and “Bills of Credit”“The immediate aftermath of the Civil War was a time of unprecedented legal flux, during which new doctrines...
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“To regulate Value”

“To * * * regulate * * * Value ” and the cognate power “To * * * fix the standard of Weights and...
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“To coin Money”

The power “To coin Money”Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 sets out the sole, express grant of power in the Constitution to bring "Money"...
National Money Unit of the United States

Adoption of the “Dollar” as the “Money Unit” Prior to the Ratification of the...

The Constitutional "Dollar"Both Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 and the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution refer explicitly to the “dollar”—in the one case,...
Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve System: Cartel Structure

The Federal Reserve SystemThe Federal Reserve System is a cartel that controls the United States money supply and redistributes wealth with the blessings of...
Legal Tender

The Power to Declare “Money” a Legal Tender

The following analysis is an excerpt fromTO REGULATE THE VALUE OF MONEY:AN ANALYSIS OF THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT TO CREATE AND SET A VALUE ON...
Constitutional vs Confidence Game fiscal system

Constitutional vs. Confidence Game Fiscal System

1.) Silver and Gold as Money is constitutionally required for Economic "Homeland Security" Historically, silver and gold have always proven to be the best...
Bills of Credit

“Bills of Credit”: Outlawed by the Constitution

"Bills of Credit": Outlawed by the ConstitutionIn the the Federal Convention of 1787, the initial draft of the Constitution reported by the Committee of...
"well regulated Militia" 2nd Amendment

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Federal Reserve System: Cartel Structure

The Federal Reserve SystemThe Federal Reserve System is a cartel that controls the United States money supply and redistributes wealth with the blessings of...
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“Emergency Powers”

"Emergency Powers"The real "emergency" that confronts Americans is the lust of aspiring and conspiring usurpers and tyrants for power WE THE PEOPLE have withheld...
War

“War”: The Constitutional Meaning

"War": The Constitutional MeaningConstitutionally speaking, "War" is a specific set of legal relations between two or more independent nations. Therefore no "War" can be...
special interest groups

“Factions” or “Special Interest” Groups

"Factions" or "Special Interest" GroupsAmerica’s Founding Fathers denounced “factions” (what we refer to today as “special interests”) because these groups consist of “a number of citizens,...
Official Immunity

“Official Immunity”

"Official Immunity"The Constitution itself provides for one and only one “official immunity”, in its allowance that, “for any Speech or Debate in either House...