Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site cca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!cca!dee From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake) Newsgroups: net.taxes Subject: Re: Admiralty Jurisdiction Message-ID: <1112@cca.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 10:31:05 EST Article-I.D.: cca.1112 Posted: Sat Dec 8 10:31:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 03:43:19 EST References: <494@teldata.UUCP> Organization: Computer Corp America, Cambridge Lines: 8 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 ARPA: dee@CCA-UNIX usenet: {decvax,linus}!cca!dee