Is this something we could see implemented across the American Redoubt? Just a thought…
By Idaho State Rep., Phil Hart
April 4, 2012
NewsWithViews.com
Last week the House State Affairs Committee of the Idaho Legislature sent to the amending order a Sound Money bill. This bill is called the “Idaho Constitutional Money Act of 2012.” The purpose of the bill is to remove barriers and provide statutory authority for those in Idaho who may choose to do business with gold and silver coin. The bill will declare gold and silver coins currently minted by the United States Mint as legal tender in Idaho.
The authority to conduct business in gold and silver coin already exists at the federal level in the United States Code. You can find the statute at 31U.S.C. 5118 (d)(2). What I am sure some will find surprising is that our states are required to do business in gold and silver coin as mandated by the United States Constitution.
“No state shall…. Make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts:….” United States Constitution, article I, section 10, clause 1.
If we were obeying the Constitution, all state business would be conducted in gold and silver coin. But most of us have forgotten our Constitution, and very few of us push back enough to slow the process down of America’s transformation from limited government to big government. Reliance on fiat money is necessary to support big government.
Today’s out of control creation of fiat money by the private Federal Reserve Bank is evidence that the “chains of the Constitution” that Thomas Jefferson referred to as what would hold back government have been completely broken. And the growth of our government along with its deficit spending now threatens the very survival of our Nation.
But these chains do not need to stay broken forever. They can be repaired. The Constitution is only ink on paper. It has no life of its own. It gets its life from us. Our ignorance of the Constitution effectively makes it a dead document. And our ignorance provides energy and encouragement to those who choose to abuse the Constitution, and consequently abuse us. This dynamic is accurately portrayed in the movie The Matrix. Our choice to remain both ignorant and silent empowers those who have abused the process. And from a practical standpoint we have been enslaved with unpayable debts and stifling taxation. Thomas Jefferson also said “Those who expect to be ignorant and free, expect something that never was and never will be.”
On the contrary, when we are knowledgeable of our Constitution, we are less likely to stand on the sidelines and watch the Constitution be abused. When we withhold our consent to unconstitutional government actions, by way of our resistance, the usurpers are instead thwarted.
Only by defending the Constitution will we be able to restore our Republic. And the defense of the Constutition needs to start at the grassroots; because the further one climbs in the political hierarchy, the more likely they are to abuse the Constitution. Even the courts put their wetted finger up to check which way the political wind is blowing.
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