1+1=5. No dice. You'd have to provide something more substantive. A Supreme Court opinion striking down the various currency acts would be a good start.
Why would the Supremem pay any more attention to breaking this part of the Constitution than any other? Treason on the part of 5 out of 9 judges does NOT change what the Constitution calls for.
In this case, 1+1 = 2, Rabbi. Lets go over it again:
1. The states may only make gold and silver coin legal tender for debts.
U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 10
Article 1 - The Legislative Branch
Section 10 - Powers Prohibited of States
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Agreed thats what it means?
2. Only the United States Congress can "coin" money -
U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8
....To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
Only Congress can make the money, and it has to be "coined" - gold and silver, because THATS what the States under the Constitution are rrequired to use - kapisch?
3. Now lets look at Section 10 again:
Section 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal;
coin money;
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The States CANNONT, MUST NOT coin money - only the Federal Congress can.
emit bills of credit;
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"bills of credit" are debt instruments - paper money bajced by a promise to pay. Federal Reserve Notes are "bills of credit", so were the Continentals issued by the previous American government, as well as Lincoln's (illegal) Greenbacks. This provision PROHIBITS the states from issuing paper money - the Federal Government is already prohibited from issuing paper money, because it has the SOLE authority to issue money to thte States, which MUST, by the COnstitution, use gold and silver coin. There would be no point to issuing anything else, as no one in the States cpould use it - it could only be used in territories unincorprated into a state.
make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts;
Game, set, and match. The states MUST use gold and silver coin - only the Federal government can supply it - in fact the states are prohibited from using paper money, or even establishing the relative value of gold and silver, or foriegn coins - that is reserved to Congress in Section 8.
pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.