States Rights Bills Now Calling for Gold and Silver Money

Posted on the AOCS Direct blog, from the American Open Currency Standard
Feb. 1, 2010

Executive Summary – Well this wasn’t hard to see coming. The states are scared of the Fed. The big threat is the Fed declares martial law and closes the state governments making them irrelevant. The states in fear for their own governments existence are passing states rights bills. These basically go back to the constitution reasserting that the states created the Federal Government. The constitution clearly lists the rights the Federal Government has and clearly states any other rights belong to the states. Unless specifically prohibited to the states.

Gold & Silver Money – The states doing this to date are as follows with the respective bill numbers which you can look up yourself:

Indiana S.B. 453 Colorado H.B. 09-1206 Missouri H.B. 0561 Georgia H.B. 430 Maryland H.J.R. 5

None of these bills has yet passed. They basically are saying the state has to operate based on gold and silver. They also say the banking system has to allow people to operate using gold or silver. I believe using a paper note backed 100% by gold or silver would be allowed.

Some of the bills also talk of electronic representation of actual gold or silver. They are talking 100% backed currency, not partial fiat money and the electronic aspects would enable bank to bank electronic transfers of this god and silver money.

Discussion – Reading between the lines what you get is citizens will be able to bank and conduct commerce in gold and silver. States will have to do so. I think there would be a marked preference for gold and silver and many merchants would not want to take federal reserve fiat notes or if they did take them at much higher prices. It is a back door to a solid constitutional monetary system. It is also a sign of the states getting ready to break away.

To secede the states need a monetary system and banking system that is not dependent on using the federal reserve fiat notes backed by nothing at all. They will arrange for bank-to-bank transfer of gold and silver electronically. Exactly how remains to be seen but the virtual currency guys have been doing it for ten years.

Curious how birth certificate free Obama stays away from even mentioning states rights. He sure is working overtime to get control measures passed by any means he can conjure up. Funny with all the homeless, out of work folks, people without healthcare, businesses failing he should chose to make gun control a priority. What’s wrong with this picture.

If the states rights every gets legs and either controls the Fed or the states secede and form new countries the people should know that is was the vast gun ownership and shooting skills in the USA that kept the Fed from just asserting martial law and turning the country into a real nightmare. Have you ever seen a anti-gun politician who is also against high taxes?

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One year later: Gold and The Constitutional Tender Act

Here's a great blog post at the Campaign For Liberty site about our efforts here in Georgia:

I'll start out with this disclaimer: I am not an economist. I'm an "average Joe," who has an avid interest in Austrian economics, and knows the basic essential rule of Economics: Supply and Demand. Most of what I write here is just my thoughts, and is purely based on some trends I've noticed. For that matter, if you agree or disagree, I'd like to hear your comments so that I can better understand what the hell is going on. I'd also like to know if, had the Constitutional Tender Act been implemented, A) would we be in a better position today than a year ago? B) would it been about the same? (no harm, no foul), or C), would things be worse? Any and all criticism, accolade, and/or input is welcome.

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State considers return to gold, silver dollars

State considers return to gold, silver dollars
Proposed bill slams Fed, allows payments in precious metals

By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

A bill being considered in the Montana Legislature blasts the Federal Reserve’s role in America’s money policy and permits the state to conduct business in gold and silver instead of the Fed’s legal tender notes.

Montana H.B. 639, sponsored by State Rep. Bob Wagner, R-Harrison, doesn’t require the state or citizens to conduct business in gold or silver, but it does require the state to calculate certain transactions in both the current legal tender system and in an electronic gold currency. It further mandates that the state must accept payments in gold or silver for various fees and purchases.

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Good commentary from "RECLAIM (.org) AMERICA": Click here

"Why Gold Is The Currency Of The Free And Idle"

"Why Gold Is The Currency Of The Free And Idle"
A Reading by Dominic Frisby of his essay on gold for The Idler Magazine

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Two Recently-Discovered YouTube Videos

We just stumbled across two good home-made YouTube videos that are relevant to the use of Constitutional Tender or to the Constitutional Tender Act itself.

The first discusses a number of different news items, but check out what is said beginning at 7:18:



The second has some interesting information regarding the fact that States have abandoned their Constitutional requirement to use ONLY gold and silver coin in payment of debt, and how that fact can actually benefit you in issues of taxation and fees... if you're willing to take that chance! :-)

Let's get our States back to doing what the Constitution REQUIRES them to do, and we won't have to "play around" with this kind of stuff!

Silver-90% Silver & ASE requested as payment under Ga. HB 430 as payments to the State in 2011

[UPDATE] Looks like "Michael" removed this video from YouTube. Oh well - thanks for having it up while you did! :-)

This is an interesting post by "Michael" on YouTube, who writes that he is from "deep Southern Georgia".

A good take on the Constitutional Tender bill.



Thanks for promoting it, Michael!

One Thousand Supporters today!

Hi folks - I haven't written since the end of the legislative session here in Georgia, but I wanted to give you a quick update:

We've now hit ONE THOUSAND SUPPORTERS in our cause on Facebook! (Thanks, Tara!) That puts us at "Guild" status (only 1500 more needed to reach "Tribe" status!).

That's FANTASTIC. Things are going to start heating up again as a number of state legislatures (maybe including Georgia) go back into session, and we see our efforts moving forward. As the economy nosedives, thanks to fiat money and the fractional reserve system, more and more people are looking to REAL money -- CONSTITUTIONAL TENDER -- as the only real solution to what our "leaders" and the Federal Reserve have brought upon us.

We CAN win this -- if we stick to it! Thanks so much for being willing to support this cause, and God bless!

Bill Greene