[identity profile] yahvah.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
1) If any state makes any thing a tender in payment of debts which isn't gold and silver coin, then that state has broken the supreme law of the land vis-a-vis Article one Section ten.
2) All fifty states make federal reserve notes a tender in payment of debts.
Therefore:
3) All fifty states have broken the supreme law of the land.

Some of you want to say the U.S. constitution is irrelevant, or the interpretation of the U.S. constitution is somehow fallacious. I'd like to point you to Cornell Law School's site. Notice how there's a hyperlink in section nine for the direct taxes clause, and the link takes you to the sixteenth amendment. The U.S. went through the amendment process to invalidate an original law of the constitution, but the Federal Reserve Act merely went through Congress and then to the President's desk. The exact same thing happens with the war on drugs. We amend the constitution to prohibit alcohol, but we don't amend the constitution to prohibit a less harmful drug like marijuana.

Where's the irrefutable logic which shows how the U.S. doesn't have to amend the constitution?

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Date: 10/2/10 01:51 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
Let me rephrase - if you believe they're using federal notes to deal with debts, what do you think they're using to buy said tender?

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Date: 10/2/10 03:01 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
You're talking about something involving individuals, when the clause is about states. Try again.

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Date: 10/2/10 03:06 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
I didn't add it, but I will remove it. I think this is silly goldbug nonsense, but not trolling.

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