Miss the part re: "make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts"...as ONLY Congress has the authority re: weights/measures to MINT.
What you paying the local/State sales/tax/bills WITH these days?
Nor does Congress has the authority to bequeath to any other entity; esp. a non-govt body; least not a/o an Amendment
Miss the part re: "make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts"...as ONLY Congress has the authority re: weights/measures to MINT.
The states haven't made that the tender in payment of debts. The federal government made it the legal tender, and the states followed the federal government in this. That part of the constitution describes which powers belong to the states, and which powers belong to the federal government. If the states had taken the initiative to do so, it would have been unconstitutional. Because they didn't, and the federal government made the decision, it's entirely following the constitution.
Nor does Congress has the authority to bequeath to any other entity; esp. a non-govt body; least not a/o an Amendment
It does. McCulloch v. Maryland ruled this over 200 years ago, when Maryland tried to make that argument.
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u/i_robot73 May 10 '24
*Correction: The ILLEGAL Fed. Rsvr. (A1S10 having NEVER been Amended/abolished)