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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2025
Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
 
– John Quincy Adams, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives [July 4, 1821]

HORNBERGER'S BLOG
July 18, 2025 I don’t get it. The Constitution clearly established a monetary system based on gold coins and silver coins. That was the American monetary system for more than 125 years. There has never been a constitutional amendment to convert that system to a paper-money system. Given such, why do we have a paper-money system? The Constitution called the federal government into existence. Unlike European ...
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