Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn’t say anything about gold or silver.
Ron Paul
Article I, Section 8,
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society. … Read more