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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 473708, member: 11668&quot;]No, the federal government is not a state.&nbsp; The point of the quoted clause is that the *states* aren&#039;t allowed to issue their own coins or paper money, or make their own decisions about what&#039;s legal tender.&nbsp; Other clauses explicitly give the federal Congress the authority to do both those things.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Well, it&#039;s not really all that explicit whether the Congress is allowed to issue paper money.&nbsp; There was quite a debate over this when paper money was first made a legal tender in the 1860s, but the Supreme Court upheld that law, so that&#039;s how the Constitution has been read ever since.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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