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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1262777, member: 17919&quot;]Article 1, Section 10:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times">No</font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times">State shall ...</font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times"> coin Money; ...</font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times"> make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts...</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times">I think it&#039;s pretty clear that the States could not disburse copper or paper in payment of debts, and if they&nbsp; couldn&#039;t pay out anything but gold and silver, why would they accept paper or copper? Moreover, they couldn&#039;t coin their own money. So the Federal government by default couldn&#039;t arbitrarily declare other monetary media to be legal tender given this restriction that was placed on the States.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times"></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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