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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
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Reply-To: shad@teldata.UUCP (Warren Shadwick)
Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA
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> 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