Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site teldata.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!cholula!teldata!shad From: shad@teldata.UUCP Newsgroups: net.taxes Subject: Re: Admiralty Jurisdiction Message-ID: <497@teldata.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 13:24:01 EST Article-I.D.: teldata.497 Posted: Tue Dec 11 13:24:01 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 06:04:04 EST References: <494@teldata.UUCP> <1112@cca.UUCP> Reply-To: shad@teldata.UUCP (Warren Shadwick) Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA Lines: 41 Summary: > I thought we went through this nonsense about gold and silver coins > already. The Constitution says that states can only authorize gold > and silver coins as money. However, this would only be in the absence > of a pre-emptive national system imposed by Congress, which is under > no such restriction. Try reading the Consititution on this point. > -- > + Donald E. Eastlake, III Please read Article I, Section 10 again. The Constitution here prohibits states from making ANYTHING but gold and silver coin a TENDER IN PAYMENT OF DEBTS. It says nothing about money. Take a good look at your Federal Reserve note. The note says a legal tender FOR all debts not IN PAYMENT OF debts. Then look at Article I, Section 8 wherein is stated [Congress shall have the power] to COIN money. Debate on this issue is a matter of recorded history and the representatives to the Constitutional Convention specifically struck down a clause that would allow emitting bills of credit which we now have in the form of Federal Reserve notes. "Congress ... under no such restriction"? Amendment Article X, "The powers NOT DELEGATED to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people [emphasis mine]." In other words, the Constitution is a specific grant of power to the federal government (i.e. if the power is not found in the Constitution then the federal government does NOT have that power). Your reading of the Constitution must be different than mine. This matter may be "nonsense" to you, Sir, but the full implications of these acts of usurpation have yet to be understood or brought to fruition. My hope is that the worst cases of history are not to be repeated in this nation. Warren Shadwick