by Doug Tjaden, SilverSaver.com
NOTE: Doug Tjaden will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Kansas City. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/kansascity/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS
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The two documents that forged this great nation go hand in hand. They are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the United States of America. The Constitution codified the basic principles outlined in the preamble to the Declaration, which include the protection of our “unalienable Rights†to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.â€Â The Constitution also defines how men receive their “just powers,†which are derived from the “consent of the governed†and it provides several “checks and balances†to prevent abuse of those powers.
The breadth of these checks and balances is not fully understood by most Americans. They believe that all necessary checks and balances are contained within the “separation of powers†between the three branches of the Federal Government. This belief has allowed the 10th Amendment to be neutered by the Supreme Court, which has in nearly all matters unconstitutionally positioned the Federal Government as sovereign over the states.
Many citizens of the several states have dared to read non-politically correct history books, and have thus uncovered remedies to this overreach, such as state nullification, which is outlined in Thomas Jefferson’s “Principles of 98’.â€Â
Many of these citizens are now rightly focused on passing state sovereignty resolutions and litigating unconstitutional laws in a court system that is, unfortunately, hostile to their cause. However, seemingly lost in the nullification effort is a constitutional remedy that, if enacted, would by itself effectively nullify many Federal Government programs which are used as a vehicle to expand Federal power. That provision is constitutional tender.
Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution says, “No State shall… coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.â€Â This straight forward provision allows states to require that only gold and silver coin may be used as legal tender. How could this provision have been used by the states to check Federal power?
First of all, each time the Federal Government passed legislation allowing fiat money, states could have nullified those laws (including several coinage acts and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913) by referring to Article 1, Section 10 and refused to accept “bills of credit†(paper money) for payment of debts. This would have immediately blocked the bankers’ efforts to gain control of our law making machine through the spoils of direct taxation (16th Amendment) and to confiscate the nation’s wealth through debasement of the currency (which the Coinage Act of 1792 made punishable by death).
Sadly, previous generations failed to use this method of nullification. Should their failure stop us from implementing this constitutional remedy today? No. Article 1 Section 10 is still in the Constitution. Thus, today we can, and should, use monetary nullification to begin the process of rolling back thousands of Federal mandates by demanding that our state legislators implement sound money and require the Federal Government to use it as a tender in payment of debts.
This would ultimately reduce the size of, or eliminate, agencies such as the NSA, TSA, EPA, FDA, NEA, DEA and others. How? Today, these agencies receive, on average, 43% of their funding through deficit spending. This is only possible because a privately owned central bank (the Federal Reserve) can print money and lend it to the Federal Government to finance this excess spending.
When states demand sound money as payment, the Fed’s monopoly on monetary policy and economic (mis)management is nullified. A strong competitive currency will bring about the end of the Fed, not through statute, but through the free market rejection of its debt-backed fiat money. Without printed money, alphabet soup agencies would see their budgets slashed. How many would survive to continue to implement their unconstitutional mandates? Few if any.
Constitutional tender is, therefore, the necessary companion for every nullification effort underway in this nation. Without it, the tens of thousands of labor hours and tens of millions of dollars invested in pursuing nullification through the courts will be wasted. Why? M.A. Rothschild was correct when he said, “Give me control over a nation’s currency and I care not who makes its laws.†The bankers cannot be allowed to simply use another paper money system to buy back the victory we achieve at the cost of our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.
Thankfully, states are awakening. Utah is leading the way, having passed the Utah Sound Money Act in March of this year. Several other states are quickly moving toward adoption of sound money. But time is short. Our monetary system is unstable and ripe for replacement with another fiat system. Should this happen prior to adoption of sound money by the states, our ability to restore constitutional, limited government will be severely jeopardized.
Join the effort today to nullify the Fed through implementation of sound money. Attend one of several important conferences to be held in 2011. The first is Nullify Now! in Kansas City, which will be held August 20th. The next is the Utah Monetary Summit in Deer Valley, Utah on September 26th. The purpose of which is to discuss sound money principles and craft model legislation for the 2012 state legislative sessions. Information on these and future conferences will be posted at the Sound Money Center, which is dedicated to the restoration of constitutional tender to the states, and ultimately, the nation.
Nullify Now! I hope to see you at an event soon.
EDITOR’S NOTE: You can track the progress of state-based Constitutional Tender legislation at THIS LINK
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Doug Tjaden is the Director of Business Development for MassMetal, LLC, a company dedicated to helping put physical precious metals into the hands of “the masses.” (www.silversaver.com) Doug is also an author, pastor and father of five and is a speaker on economics, politics and religion. He is passionate about helping people understand history, and how it can help us identify trends in place which will affect our lives. Doug is currently overseeing the Honest Money Center, a project dedicated to educating people on the merits of constitutional, honest/sound money. The site also provides a place for state honest money committees to collaborate and share ideas and garner grass roots support for their initiatives.
I have thought this too for quite awhile. But in addition to the nullification of fiat tender, fractional reserve lending must also be abolishied. The several states must enact laws to outlaw fractional reserve lending or the lending institutions will, by default, make Gresham's law work. The good money is replaced by the "bad" money through the device of fractional reserve. Any institution that is lending as an FRB recieves the real sound money during re-payment of the loan. The loan notes are bought back with real money which is then in the bank and not the economy. That is why Gresham's Law is a Law of economics. Only the Banks using Fractional Reserve lending will have any of the sound money in the end.
Also, there can be no fixed ratio between metals. That is the situation that brought about the crash in the 1890s when the Comstock lode was discovered. With a Dollar that had two definitions, one in a weight of gold, and another in a weight of Silver, and the ratio of value pegged at 15:1the new Silver from Comstock created an arbitrage that was devastating. The Dollar was defined in the Coinage Act as a weight of Silver, leave that alone. move the fixed ratio and let the Gold Ounce be a coin with NO DENOMINATION! Let it float over the Dollar of Silver. One Standard for the unit of Value, and one base weight for the Gold as a Store of Value, measured in the markets against the standard unit of one once of Silver.
I meant remove the fixed ratio not move the fixed ratio!
That's not necessarily so. In a parallel fiat/sound money system, citizens are able to pay loans back with fiat money, which is still freely available in the economy. On top of that, the value ratio of fiat will drop precipitously in such an economy, so sound money users will get a windfall in being able to pay back fiat loans with depreciating fiat money while being able to keep gold and silver for purchases that matter. This will actually put fractional reserve banks out of business.
I hope you are right. Really. But still, I think an outlawing of fractional reserve is still called for in any case.
Mr. Edward Griffin has diligently comprised a 98 years biography on how and why Federal Reserve System was structured. "Creature from Jekyll Island" should be placed back in text books!
America the beautiful has been hijacked since 1913 when the Federal Reserve was signed into law by two congressmen. In two and half generations the partnership (politicians and global cartel) has brought America to her knees!
How, I ask how the hell can an intelligent population like the USA be so ignorant??? I am talking about 98 long years and only a handful of citizens know about this???
America represented an ideal that the entire world loved, desired and wanted… I guess "good things don't last" is true as long as there's good and evil. God help America!
PUBLIC EDUCATION is the reason sir.
All 635 so-called representatives now pretend that Barry Soetoro is our president and that his name is Obama….They ALL go along to get their fat paychecks and retirement of fiat money….They also stuff billions of it into the the VATICAN BANK….check it out.
I thought there were 535 so-called politicians. Be it Barry Soetoro or Barack Obama, which ever you prefer to call the USURPING BASTARD, he is UNQUALIFIED and most importantly "INELIGIBLE" to be in our White House! The fact that these 535 politicians are allowing this USURPER to stay in office tells me that the CORRUPTION in our government is COMPLETE! All these MORON politicians know this USURPER is as ILLEGAL as HELL and yet not one of them has the balls or backbone to stop this USURPING BASTARD! The corruption is rampant through-out the ENTIRE Congress! To stop the bullshit, to stop these MORONS ALL from taking away our freedom, we MUST stand together and vote all of these bastard's out and start with a fresh government! There should be no one who holds an office for more than 8 years! If these morons are are allowed to stay in office for more than 8 years, they get too familiar with the seat, they get organizations contributing to their OWN SPECIAL CAUSES and this leads to more and more CORRUPTION! No matter who they are,from the Oval Office down, no one should hold an office for more than 8 years! In the case of this USURPING MORON Obama, he should have been IMPEACHED for CAUSE right after he was ILLEGALLY placed in office! Too many people are worried about him using the "RACE CARD"! His GOD DAMN race has nothing to do with the FACTS that he is ILLEGALLY in Office, PERIOD! He is Unqualified and most importantly "INELIGIBLE" to be in office! This MORON has submitted two, not one but two phony birth certificates to Comgress, which is a FELONY in itself! This USURPER CANNOT and I will repeat, he CANNOT PROVE he is a LEGAL U.S. Cirizen, nor can he PROVE he is ELIGIBLE to be the president of our country! This MORON should be IMPEACHED, tried for TREASON, FRAUD and CONSPIRACY against the United States and the American people! Then, rather than putting him in prison, he should be DEPORTED to where both he and his wife call "HIS HOME COUNTRY of KENYA"! Hell the KENYAN Congress has boosted about how their KENYAN citizen is now the president of America, which in itself should tell these morons and fools in our government, that this SOB is as ILLEGAL AS HELL and should be IMPEACHED IMMEDIATELY!
The 16th Amendment did not change the Constitution's Article one Sections 2 & 9 and did not add new taxes. Read the many Supreme Court rulings on this. Read "Cracking the Code, The Fascinating Truth About Taxation in America." Direct taxation is still unConstitutional unless proportioned. Go to www. losthorizons.com and read and watch and buy the book listed above. — Also In the first Coinage Act of 1792 in the USA, the dollar was given a value of 371.25 grains of pure silver or its equivalent in gold. This has not been changed. In the same act, The Founders also established the death penalty for debasing the dollar. In our Constitution, a law must be pursuant to The Constitution [ie named in the Enumerated Powers of Article one Section eight. ]. "Federal reserve" is not in our Constitution and therefore illegal. Furthermore, no law can supersede The Constitution, the law of the land. The States have the right to "End The Fed" by Amendment started in the States! The State legislatures need to get going on this and making gold and silver legal tender.
Many say that "deflation" will kick in in a pure gold/silver economy, but that isn't true, at least not in the sense in which everybody today understands and fears it. "Deflation" is only painful when it occurs as a result of credit destruction. When the supply of previously created-out-of nothing debt-money shrinks, companies go out of businesses and employment shrinks because it all came into existence only as a result of the proliferation of credit (malinvestment). In the transition to a sound money system, fears that "there won;t be enough money to go around" because the supply is limited by nature are overblown. The existing amount fo gold and silver can accommodate any amount of economic development in the world. Prices will just have to shrink – but when that is the result of development/expansion through frugal and well-supported activity, there are no negative consequences. As long as the prices of goods and services are expressed in terms of grams or grains of metal, rather than arbitrary numbers associated with concepts like a "dollar" or a "franc" or "lira", the only thing that will force prices down is an undersupply of metal – so BANKS, not people – must be prevented by law from hoarding gold and silver.,
Yes exactly. The problem is that there is no standard of value to measure with when the fiat currency floats. So, when a bubble bursts or the monetary system is collapsing, deflation is the search for a common unit on a unit-less currency. Ultimately, the deflation ends, when a different unit is discovered by the market, even if that discovery is a rediscovery in the money value of gold and silver!
A three bedroom house is about the same "value" in real terms of use and property as 280 ounces of gold, and has been for a long time. Prices in fiat money go all over the place, but when you compare spot on gold to fiat "price" of other items at the same moment in time, the conversion to a weight of gold has very little variance. That stability is the real money value of the monetary metals. They are stable relatively speaking.
The US Supreme Court voted unanimously for the Individual and State Sovereignty rights in June of this year. You can look it up under the above Court records Bond V US.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/silvergold/id45582…
The Solari Report has posted this link to the FREE gold/silver conversion application that you can put on your i-phone to make it easy to buy and sell with gold/silver right now. I received an e-mail this morning from Solar that contains other links as well showing a tremendous surge in interest in using gold and silver. I don't actually have any money, so I didn't check out the other links, but just want anyone who does have money to know about this. I sent the link to my Ron Paul meetup group because a bunch of them are into silver and have done well. Check out the Solari Report, it's a good source of economic information as well as other posts on the cutting edge of what's going on right now to destroy America and how to fight it…..
I have been buying "junk silver" which is old US silver dimes. Each one is worth about One mocha or maybe a pack of smokes. But they are universally recognizable and "small change" for people like me who have not got big bucks to "invest". Well worth the effort too, as the value has exceded the cost already. I broke even after only one month! Shipping, fees, everything! Now I'm seeing a gain and all I have to do is hold them. Deflation happens for gold and silver when fiat money is inflating!!!
Thank G-D people all over the world are waking up to the schemes of the I M F and the so called
Federal Reserve Banks.
G- Bless those who are called and set apart-from the rest of us (who do everything wrong in the eyes of apathetic aquaintances); If freedom is to B it is up toThee. End The Fed, Restore the Natural Family, and separate Government from the Education of the youth. If this Liberty Giant does not awaken Tyranny will rule ,and in the current time, we will weep as witnesses of the greatest ideas known to mankind perish from our sight.
"Obama is but a figurehead of an unelected government in the US. This unelected power of corporate elites – commercial, financial, military – governs with the same core policies regardless of who is sitting in the White House. Whether these policies are on social, economic or foreign matters, the elected president must obey the direction ordained by the unelected elite. That kind of untrammeled power structure conforms more closely in practice to dictatorship, not democracy!
The debt ceiling crisis is a manufactured one, engineered to extort concessions that will lock the middle class in debt peonage for decades to come. Congress is empowered by the Constitution to issue the money it needs to pay its debts. The irony is that Obama’s election was presented as a potent symbol of American democracy; the truth is that the two-party system has become a threadbare cover for immense feebleness when it comes to serving the diktat of elite power as opposed to the good of the people. “The most powerful office in the world” would be more accurately referenced as “the most feeble purveyor of elite interests”.
"Even more disturbing is that the war on terror mindset fomented by Western governments and media over the past 10 years has led to the creation of lunatic fascist psychopaths like Anders Behring Breivik who carried out the Norway mass murder. Breivik and others like him think that Europe and the US must be defended from some kind of Muslim threat. This kind of logic does not conjure from thin air. It is rather the logical conclusion of the war on terror mindset that Western governments and news media have pushed down the throats of their citizens for a decade. Obama’s presence in the White House indulges a superficial moral/political correctness while the masters (Cartel) whip us all into austere servitude. The even sadder part is that as Obama’s ineffectual election shows, the US (and its Western lackeys) is being driven further and further into bankrupting, criminal wars of aggression that will cause more victims of violence and social mayhem at home and abroad. And it’s all because democracy in the US (and elsewhere in the West) is non-existent. The US is a dictatorship. And Mr Obama is too ineffectual (save for the masters) and irrelevant to be even loosely called its dictator"