When the US Government is given the constitutional power to do something, is it assumed that they must do it?
Article 1, Section 8 “The Congress shall have power to … coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures” Must they to coin money and regulate it? Are they then prohibited from removing coin money (eg. gold, silver) from the market?
No, I suppose the federal government technically doesn’t have to coin money just because they have the power to, but our economy operates on the fact that they do. The important thing about that provision when the Constitution was written was that the federal government has the *exclusive* power to coin money. Under the Articles of Confederation, each state had the power to coin their own money and it was economic chaos.
Currencies are moving to Gold Standard!
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