Your disagreement with the second proposition is in conflict with the word tender when it's used as a noun for this reason. The states are not to offer anything but gold and silver coin as payment for debts; offer is the word used in the definition of tender as a verb and as a noun. No states can coin money; only the federal government can coin money. You're saying the federal government can say something can be offered as a payment of debt, but that's in direct contradiction with the statement that no state can offer anything but gold and silver coin as a payment of debt.
You cannot resolve the contradiction.
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Date: 10/2/10 02:38 (UTC)You cannot resolve the contradiction.