Contact Speaker of Arizona House of Representatives Today
Tom WestbrookPatriots; Arizonans need gold, silver choice for money! Please write/call your feelings about Az.'s SB1439 Legal Tender (gold, silver) -- it has hit a snag with bankers, after passing through the Az. Senate on a straight party split.
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 1, Clause 1:
"No 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."
Did you notice that the part about coining money is not directly linked to the part about gold and silver coin as tender? Legal tender and money are not necessarily the same thing. Time for Arizona to do the same thing that the Federal Government did with the Federal reserve bank... contract the job of making gold and silver legal tender coins out to Von Hothaus and his organization, but don't use the resulting coins as money. Print paper for that.
The founding fathers would want something like this. They knew the mess a central banking system would get us into. So, they left the States a way out.