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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
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Subject: Re: Legal Tender and the U.S. Government
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 10:22:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 10 10:22:55 1984
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US Constitution
	Artilce I, Section 8:  The Congress shall have Power ... To coin
Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the
Standard of Weights and Measurers.  ...
	Article I, Section 10:  No >>STATE<< shall ... make any Thing
but gold and silver Coin Tender in Payment of Debts; ...

I think it will be clear to anyone who will bothers to read the
Constitution and the context of these provisions that any resriction to
gold and silver effects only States that are authorizing coins when it
happens that they are being permitted to do so by Congress.

-- 
	+	Donald E. Eastlake, III
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