Anonymous ID: 226e07 March 1, 2020, 11:20 a.m. No.8293062   🗄️.is 🔗kun

This post >>8292984 is so blatantly, provably false.

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-115/

Statement from the Press Secretary

February 25, 2020

 

President Trump’s commitment to protecting the most vulnerable is unwavering, and we applaud yesterday’s Ninth Circuit decision upholding our Title X regulation. This regulation protects the unborn by ensuring Title X grants are allocated as Congress intended – and not as abortion providers or abortion advocacy organizations would prefer. By law, Title X prohibits grant funds from going to programs where abortion is considered a method of family planning. This ruling upholds the Title X regulation that will ensure compliance with that law. The President and his Administration remain committed to advancing pro-life policies.

Anonymous ID: 226e07 March 1, 2020, 11:23 a.m. No.8293090   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8292879

Let's start calling things by their true names.

It's not a "lap dance" – it's "rubbing their genitals on a little girl's pubic region".

It's not a "drag queen" – it's a deeply disturbed, sexually perverted individual.

It's not an innocent behavior normally tolerated by adults – it's sexual abuse of a child by an adult.

 

Fight back against intellectual terrorism.

We don't have to use their weaponized language.

Anonymous ID: 226e07 March 1, 2020, 11:26 a.m. No.8293112   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3216

>>8293015

https://deanclancy.com/the-constitutions-seven-money-clauses/

 

August 5, 2014 by Dean Clancy

The Constitution’s Seven Money Clauses

 

They protect liberty and prosperity — when we follow them.

 

Seven clauses of the United States Constitution touch on questions that might be described as relating to monetary policy.

 

Properly interpreted, these seven clauses together form a system of rules that strongly protects economic prosperity and political liberty.

 

Four of the clauses include the word ‘money,’ three include the word ‘coin,’ and two include the word ‘dollars.’ /1

 

Below is the text of each of the clauses, followed by some definitions and comments.

 

The Seven Money Clauses

 

“Congress shall have Power … To borrow Money on the credit of the United States[.]” Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 2.

“Congress shall have Power … To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures[.]” Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 5.

“Congress shall have Power … To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States[.]” Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 6.

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law[.]” Art. I, sec. 9, cl. 7.

“The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.” Art. I, sec. 9, cl. 1.

“No State shall … coin money; emit bills of credit; [or] make any Thing but gold and silver coin a Tender in Payment of Debts[.]” Art. I, sec. 10, cl. 1.

“In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved[.]” Amdt. VII.

 

The Constitution’s Five Monetary Rules

 

Read in conjunction with the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, and the obligation-of-contracts clause (Art. I, sec. 10, cl. 1), we can identify five monetary policies that are constitutionally requisite in the United States:

 

The basic unit is the dollar, a silver coin containing 371.25 grains of pure silver.

Only gold or silver coins and currency (specie-backed banknotes) can be legal tender.

No state may issue coins or currency.

No one may counterfeit U.S. Government-issued coins or currency.

Fiat money is forbidden.

 

The remainder of this article defines some of the foregoing terms, and explains how we get to these five rules.

 

Definition: ‘Dollar’

 

The Constitution makes the ‘dollar’ the basic unit of account for the republic. It does not explicitly define the dollar. Why? Because everyone at the time knew exactly what a dollar was. It was a silver coin of a fixed weight and fineness, the most popular edition of which was the Spanish milled dollar. That popular coin, remembered today as ‘pieces of eight,’ contained on average 371.25 grains of pure silver or 416 grains of standard silver. ‘Standard silver’ is pure silver mixed with other metals, such as nickel or copper, for added durability. /5

 

Prior to the Coinage Act of 1792, ‘pieces of eight’ was basically the only ‘dollar’ Americans knew or used. The U.S. government did not mint its own version of the dollar coin until after the ratification of the Constitution (1788) and the Bill of Rights (1791).

 

In the Coinage Act of 1792, sometimes also called the Mint Act (because it established the first United States Mint to coin the first United States dollars), Congress duly codified the existing, universally understood definition of ‘dollar, as follows:

 

DOLLARS OR UNITS — each to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four sixteenth parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard silver.

 

That is what a ‘dollar’ is, for constitutional purposes.

 

The value of the dollar is fixed, because it is a known quantity incorporated by reference into the constitutional text. Congress has no power to alter the value of the dollar. Only a constitutional amendment could do that.

 

Definition: ‘Regulate the Value’

 

The term ‘power to regulate the value thereof,’ with respect to ‘coined’ money, means simply the power to adjust the amount of gold in U.S. gold coins, in order to keep both gold and silver money in circulation — that is, to counteract Gresham’s Law. (Indeed, because of the Legal Tender Clause, this is not just a power but a duty.) Additionally this power allows Congress to adjust the Mint exchange rates of foreign specie coins vis-à-vis their U.S. equivalents. Importantly, this power does not allow Congress to arbitrarily redefine the value of the dollar any way it pleases.