What the Constitution says

1 In Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution for the United States we observe a correct use of the phrase “a tender”.

2 The passage states . . .

Section 10. 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 or silver coin a tender in payment of debts . . .

3 If we eliminate the clauses between “No State shall and make any thing”, we won’t change the meaning of the Section but we will make the intent of the Tender clause more clear.

4 Further modifying the form of the clause, yet not disturbing its meaning, we could say:

5 The nation’s Founders understood that to pay debts, real money must be tendered.

6 Money is some thing manufactured in a Mint.

7 The money contemplated by the Founders was gold and silver coins.

8 See Article 1, Section 8 [1:8] of United States Constitution and the Coinage Act of April 2, 1792 — the first “Coinage Act” passed by the United States Congress.

9 The Founders, in the language of the time, wrote . . .

10 The Founders were telling us that States are required to use gold or silver coins in making tenders for the payment of debts.

11 If your State has a Highway Patrol whose officers aren’t paid with silver or gold coins your State Government is in violation of the Constitution and the law.

12 Having reviewed the historical foundations of our logic, pay close attention to what follows. Remember: a Note is a promise to pay; a Note is evidence of a debt.

13 SOMETHING IS MISSING

14 Take a specimen of paper currency out of your wallet or purse. You’re looking at a piece of paper that describes itself to be a FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE.

15 Notice that the piece of paper gives the appearance of having something to do with money or some other financial or legal matter.

16 Recall that a Note at law, in financial and legal contemplation, must identify a maker, a payee, a dollar-amount, and a due-date.

17 Notice that two of these essential elements are missing from the words and symbols printed on the specimen you hold — the payee and the due-date.

18 Because these two elements are missing, you are not looking at a genuine Note at law, as far as legal matters are concerned.

19 Next, notice the words in the upper-left hand corner of the front side:

20 These words have no meaning at law.

1. The phrase THIS NOTE is irrational. You are not looking at a financial instrument recognized by law as a Note — an evidence of a debt, because two mandatory elements of a genuine Note are missing, the payee and due-date. Even if the intent of the phrase THIS NOTE refers to a written communication, the phrase is still irrational because it is not a complete sentence.

2. The phrase LEGAL TENDER is not preceded by an article — THE, or A. Without a preceding article, LEGAL TENDER has no meaning at all.

3. The phrase FOR ALL DEBTS is irrational because a Note cannot be used to pay a debt. A Note (an IOU) is evidence of a debt. You can’t pay a debt with a debt. If I owe you $100 and give you an IOU as proof of the debt, you would not have been paid. You can’t use your Note at the bank to pay-off the mortgage on your house.

4. The word ALL includes PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. If the word ALL has any meaning whatsoever, following the phrase ALL DEBTS with PUBLIC AND PRIVATE serves no purpose. A crook might put PUBLIC AND PRIVATE after ALL DEBTS to draw your attention away from a close examination of his theft by fraud.

21 PROOF OF A LIE

22 Let’s do a “Before-and-after” comparison of the cluster of words as they are printed on the Note.

23 Here’s the “Before” . . .

23.1. Eliminate THIS NOTE. It’s not a financial instrument called a Note.

23.2. Eliminate LEGAL TENDER. This phrase has no meaning because of the absence of a defining article.

23.3. Eliminate FOR ALL DEBTS. The document purports itself to be a Note. If it’s a Note, the word DEBTS must by removed because Notes cannot be used to pay debts; the word OBLIGATION would have to be used instead of DEBTS. But because DEBTS is used, the phrase THIS NOTE can’t be used and still be correct.

23.4 The meaning of the entire sentence is destroyed by the removal of either NOTE or DEBTS. Also, since the phrase FOR ALL does not contain clarifying terminology, the phrase FOR ALL DEBTS is barren of legal or financial meaning and therefore must be removed.

5. Eliminate PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. This phrase is superfluous. It has no substantive relationship to the preceding terms.

24 By eliminating meaningless and obfuscatory words here’s what the so-called “sentence” looks like — the “After” . . .

26 What does IS mean? Does it mean anything? Recall our observation about THIS NOTE in paragraph 1) above.

27 Even if the phrase THIS NOTE were not eliminated we would still be left with a wholly unintelligible cluster of words . . .

28 What rational meaning can possibly be attached to either THIS NOTE IS, or even THIS MEMORANDUM IS?

29 What at first looks like a real sentence is only a collection of sentence-fragments, utterly devoid of any meaning at law.

30 THE MISSING LINK

31 If you were to ask your local banker to explain the meaning of the eleven-word cluster given above, you might hear him of her say . . .

“Well, legal tender is what you gotta take if it’s offered to you in payment for something. If you want to buy groceries, the storekeeper has gotta take these federal Reserve Notes. It’s the law. Federal Reserve Notes are legal-tender and legal-tender’s gotta be accepted, or else you waive your right to get paid. That’s why they’re called legal-tender Notes. Anybody that doesn’t like paper money is a nut!”

32 Such nonsense is widely believed in the United States today as many readers of this report may already be aware.

33 This hypothetical banker, supposedly an expert in his industry, is blind to the fact that the pieces of paper to which he refers are NOT Notes.

34 Bankers and other “experts” have been blind to this and other critically important matters, for years.

35 Happily however, those who might persist in perpetuating such myths, after being exposed to this information, could find themselves in serious legal jeopardy.

36 If you want to accelerate the restoration of sanity to this nation, take steps to get copies of these reports into the hands of public officials, and political candidates, requesting their comment.

37 Responses might be amusing, or infuriating, or somewhere in between.

38 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.