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talkpolitics1) 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?
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 02:42 (UTC)But you do not understand the meaning of the word "make". To "make" means to create a law or a regulation to that effect.
Which particular state law or regulation "making" paper money legal tender are you objecting to?
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Date: 10/2/10 03:04 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/2/10 03:07 (UTC)I can certainly point you to papers submitted to law journals by law scholars where semantics is a major part of the paper.
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Date: 10/2/10 03:11 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/2/10 03:12 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/2/10 03:15 (UTC)Whether its "make" or "offer," the states are not "making" or "offering" anything. The federal government is.
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Date: 10/2/10 03:54 (UTC)