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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1106723, member: 22143&quot;]You can&#039;t pick and choose the parts of a sentence that you don&#039;t like.&nbsp; The entire sentence taken as a whole means that states can&#039;t coin money unless they produce it in silver and gold AND accept it for payments for debts. (including payments to the state)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was specified this way because it prevented the states from creating fiat currencies.&nbsp; The framers of the Constitution did not want another fiat currency used in the USA because during the Revolutionary war, England flooded the USA with a huge amount of counterfeit colonial script that wiped out the finances of everyone.&nbsp; However they had to allow the newly formed states the right to create their own coins.&nbsp; In those days, local currencies were a necessity because transporting money from the US Mint to the remote areas of the 13 states slow, difficult and often dangerous.&nbsp; States were given this right but they had to do it in a responsible manner which was only gold and silver coinage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It should be noted that the Constitution has been amended many times, but this clause has not been altered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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