Liberty to Mint Your Own Coins? These Guys Did Not Read the Constitution

goingbroke

Whether we agree or disagree with certain laws, we can’t simply decide to ignore them if we intend to maintain an orderly civilization. Looks like a few guys in North Carolina haven’t brushed up on their US Constitutional law lately.

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gecko109

Why play along with the rules when the government itself does not?



Article I, Section 10, provides that "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.

CaptMorgan

The U.S. Constitution has not been respected by citizens, nor elected officials for decades... Why is now different? Most couldnt even begin to tell you a basic coherent summary of the document.

Coin collectors, in my humble observation, tend to be students of history in general to a degree. Its hard, at least for me, to study coins and their rich history and not venture off into other areas. I may be alone in this, but it doesnt seem like I am.

derryb

But these are perfectly legal and used in thousands of transactions daily:



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jmski52

Yeah, Congress has the authority, and they gave a special deal to the private banking cartel in the dead of night in 1913. Congress should DO THEIR JOB for a change.