Former Texas Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul awakened a generation to the scheme of the Federal Reserve and the role they play in the nation’s economy. In 2012, he told then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that though the Fed was claiming there is only a 2% inflation increase, that the reality was more like 9%. Paul even taunted Bernanke by asking if he purchased his own groceries at the store and was aware of the prices being paid. Mr. Bernanke did say that he purchased his own groceries. However, more to the point, Paul addressed the fact that the fiat money that the Fed produces is unconstitutional. So let’s take a moment to address the Constitutional issue.
The Constitution explicitly says:
Article I Section 10No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Now, the Constitution is not just a list of what the federal government cannot do nor is it a list of prohibitions on the federal government.
The Constitution is a list of what the federal government is authorized to do, with all else being denied to it by default and reverting back to the states. The absence of specific constitutional authorization for anything means that the federal government is denied authorization by default.
How do I know this? Well, the Constitution gives us that as well.
AMENDMENT IXRIGHTS RETAINED BY THE PEOPLEThe enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. AMENDMENT XPOWERS RETAINED BY THE STATES AND THE PEOPLEThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The Constitution also says who is to coin money. That responsibility lies with Congress.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 5To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
So there are several things that we can derive from the simply language of the Constitution here:
- The federal government (The Congress) is authorized to coin money.
- States are not authorized to coin money.
- States are authorized in determining what can be used as a tender in payment of debts. States are then prohibited by the Constitution from making anything but gold or silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
All of this is very important in dealing with fiat currencies, which are not authorized in the Constitution.
During Paul’s questioning of Bernanke, he pulled out a silver coin from his pocket and deliver the following statement to show the value of the metal increasing over the previous 5 years versus the decline of the current fiat system.
“I have a silver ounce here, and this ounce of silver back in 2006 would buy over 4 gallons of gasoline. Today it’ll buy almost 11 gallons of gasoline,” he said. “That’s preservation of value and that’s what the market has always said should be money. Money comes into effect in a natural way, not in a edict, not by fiat, by governments declaring it is money.”
“The record of what you’ve done in the last six years is destroy the value of real money.” he added.
America has a problem with debt, something the founders warned us about. She also has a problem with fiat money and she also has a problem with following the Constitution, but all these things can be summed up in the fact that she is not obeying God which is the chief cornerstone of America. If we will return to God, then He will restore us as we once were.
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