On Sun, 11 May 2008 02:47:52 -0700 Bob Estes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > John W Kennedy wrote: > > On May 10, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Bob Estes wrote: > >> Jerry Feldman wrote: > >>> On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 > >>> John W Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths > >>>> of a dollar until just a few years ago. > >>> Let's bring back pieces of 8 :-) > >> Let's bring back real currency. (i.e. gold & silver coin as specified > >> in the U.S. Constitution.) > > > > > > Let's not use this mailing list as a forum for political lies. The US > > Constitution does not and never did make any such specification, as can > > be readily ascertained merely by taking the time to read it. > > > Article I, Section 10: "No State shall ... make any Thing but > gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;..." You post out of context. This is a restriction on what a state can do. This only allows the individual states to coin money. --- 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. -- -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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