Article 1, Section 10, The U.S. Constitution:
"No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything 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."
Do You Think States Should Be Allowed to Mint Their Own Currency?
ABC News U.S.
2013/02/07 21:00:00
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Will Virginia start minting its own currency? It’s an idea worth considering, according to the state’s House of Delegates.
The lower chamber passed a bill Monday to study the possibility. The legislation, proposed by Manassas Republican Del. Robert Marshall, would create a new joint subcommittee made up of lawmakers, plus two outside experts, to “study the feasibility of a metallic-based monetary unit.”
The committee could spend up to $17,440 and would present its recommendations before the legislative session starts in 2014. Translation: Ten people would advise Virginia on whether to start making its own currency on a gold or silver standard.

The lower chamber passed a bill Monday to study the possibility. The legislation, proposed by Manassas Republican Del. Robert Marshall, would create a new joint subcommittee made up of lawmakers, plus two outside experts, to “study the feasibility of a metallic-based monetary unit.”
The committee could spend up to $17,440 and would present its recommendations before the legislative session starts in 2014. Translation: Ten people would advise Virginia on whether to start making its own currency on a gold or silver standard.

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It's a detriment to the nation as a whole. A national currency makes us united.
We are not the same person and we should be allowed choices and options in which currency is stronger.
As to it being detrimental to the nation as a whole, well competition makes everything better. A government monopoly on money is no better than a monopoly on cars. Why should you not be allowed a choice in currency if the government is handling it badly? While Virginia would mint currency, it's value would not be set by Virginia. Money is a good like all other goods, and there nothing wrong with having multiple types of currency, it has worked fine in the past. It did nothing of the sort to hurt national unity, and it was better for the nation as a whole.
Keep it up. You're just digging the hole deeper.
All U.S. States save yourselfs, from this Usurper or die in financial ruin!!!!!! take the value you have out of the federal reserve system, before it is to late. The federal reserve system is UNConstitutional.......and violates are very existance financially, makes us slaves to foreign nations like China!
Only congress has has the right to make money and regulate the dollars value!! NOT OBAMA and the Federal Reserve!
The federal reserve is not even a congressional approved agency of the United States of America!!!! Infact, president Woodrow Wilson signed an executive order to create the 1913 federal reserve act, which was based off 10 banks, who today, don't even care about the United States, they have foreign connections and charge the United States exhorbant interest to make our worthless Obama dollars. Based off of no value, but the hard working backs of American ci...
All U.S. States save yourselfs, from this Usurper or die in financial ruin!!!!!! take the value you have out of the federal reserve system, before it is to late. The federal reserve system is UNConstitutional.......and violates are very existance financially, makes us slaves to foreign nations like China!
Only congress has has the right to make money and regulate the dollars value!! NOT OBAMA and the Federal Reserve!
The federal reserve is not even a congressional approved agency of the United States of America!!!! Infact, president Woodrow Wilson signed an executive order to create the 1913 federal reserve act, which was based off 10 banks, who today, don't even care about the United States, they have foreign connections and charge the United States exhorbant interest to make our worthless Obama dollars. Based off of no value, but the hard working backs of American citizens....which are now becoming slaves!!! Now with Obama higher tax rates you will become slaves to that END!
Soon it will be a days wage for a days supply of food per person!
Woodrow Wilson even admitted his error, by stating he bitterly regretted creating the Federal Reserve act of 1913. Later Wilson even said he put America into slavery and future financial ruin. Future control of the United States would be in the hands of evil!
If the states made their own money based off the Gold, or silver standard...... Obama would be out of corrupt business and so would the Federal reserve! Look at what president JFK did before he was assasinated, approved executive order 11110, which outlawed the federal reserve overnight and put the U.S. back on the Silver standard, where the dollar was worth something!! If the states made their currency, coins and stopped accepting the Worthless Obama dollar and accepted states minted gold/silver currency only.........Obama and the federal reserve is out of business!!! Then we now have value to our financial money system. Our credit would skyrocket over night and China would be out of business, since they are stuck with worthless Obama dollars, ( kids play money ).......Worthless!
President Kennedy's Executive Order (E.O.) 11110 modified the pre-existing Executive Order 10289 issued by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in 1951, and stated the following:[13]
"The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby designated and empowered to perform the following-described functions of the President without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President..."
The order then lists tasks (a) through (h) which the Secretary may now do without instruction from the President. None of the powers assigned to the Treasury in E.O. 10289 relate to money or to monetary policy. Kennedy's E.O. 11110 then instructs that:
SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 9, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended (a) By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j):
'(j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12, 1933, as amended (31 U.S.C. 821(b)), to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of an outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denominations of such silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary silver currency for their redemption,' and (b) By revoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof.
SECTION 2. The amendments made by this Order shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order but all such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said amendments had not been made.
John F. Kennedy,
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 4, 1963.
Later JFK was assasinated, Nov. 22, 1963.........By whom, for what reason?
They can legally coin from gold or silver. Unfortunately it is now to the point the coins in gold would be so small to equal a federal reserve note dollar bill it would be hard to find in your purse or to count...
Hell not using the actual precious metals is what has given us fairly worthless paper currency as a nation.
A gold standard, economically speaking, is the exact same as real gold, and as an early supreme court rules, it, effectively the same. Virginia is allowed a gold standard, i do not support worthless paper money. I do, however, support redeemable paper banknotes, also know as certificates or the gold standard.
I am not trying to argue! I may well have misunderstood what I read...
We lost the value of our money when they (the bills) were no longer on request exchanged for the gold or silver. I still have a few silver certificate bills but unless I am mistaken they no longer have to honor that? LOL, had to go look. I was right. Nixon took away the have to honor them part...
This is what Obama has done by printing and printing more money!!! destroyed us financially....Now he wnats more money to spend by raising our taxes even more nad more, when will it end??? VERY SOON, with a collapse of the Obama fed res. dollar, then our stock market and banking system. Which we have no funding to back the collapse or depositers holding Obama dollars.
Look All you States, it's either keep on trucking to Obama doom or pull away and save yourselfs!
Reason being is that many states are not financially broke yet and have GOLD/SILVER and Oil reserves and deposits. The Obama banking system is flat broke, thats why obama is trying to get more tax money from everyone, not just the rich! and also Obama is trying today, to print even more dollars as I am writing this email.
Look folks, it's going to end soon!!! States save yourselfs!!!!
The best thing for the states to do is create there own Inter-state banking system, currency and outlaw the Unconstitutional Obama Federal reserve notes and create an inter-state banking system regulated by the states deposits of GOLD/SILVER and precious metals such as platinum etc. This way, the states will not be affected by the Obama financial CRASH!!!
perhaps you should stop blaming Obama for EVERYthing. It makes your argument weak
I call issue to what a president had direct influence over. Obama inherited a bad economy. Its still bad not because of him. but because of congress and capitalism (though I love capitalism I can also see its faults)