I’m wondering where this recent push is really coming from .

Article 1 - The Legislative Branch - Section 10 - Powers Prohibited of States - Clause 1

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 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.

States can not “coin Money” nor “make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts” . Kind of a Catch 22 situation . Let’s look at a few original definitions , as understood at the time.

COIN, v.t. -

1. To stamp a metal, and convert it into money; to mint.

MONEY, n. plu. moneys. -

1. Coin; stamped metal; any piece of metal, usually gold, silver or copper, stamped by public authority, and used as the medium of commerce. We sometimes give the name of money to other coined metals,and to any other material which rude nations use a medium of trade. But among modern commercial nations, gold, silver and copper are the only metals used for this purpose. * * *

So by definition Money is Coin .

TEND'ER, n -

2. In law, an offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture which would be incurred by non-payment or non-performance; * * *

The States could only make Coin Payment for Debts . But who’s owed . I contend in this instance , only the State , and probably not it’s political subdivisions . A State has no authority to do such in matters between Private Parties .

Article 1 - The Legislative Branch - Section 8 - Powers of Congress - Clause 5

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

The Central Gove. has blatantly breached it’s Trust Duty in Coinage and regulating the Value , arrogated the Coinage to itself , and for a while even the metals , and abrogated the power to emit Bills of Credit as Currency through feign of Authority to a Private Monopoly .

Neither can the States print their own Currency as a circulating means of exchange .

“Bill of credit” is a phrase from Article One, Section 10, Clause One of the United States Constitution. It refers to a document similar to a banknote that is issued by a government and designed to circulate as money. Because the framers of the Constitution sought to limit the issuance of currency, it explicitly prohibits the states from issuing bills of credit. British colonies in North America would issue bills of credit in order to deal with financial crises, although doing so repeatedly would result in inflation. The documents would circulate as if they were currency, and colonial governments would accept them as payment for debts like taxes. They were not always considered legal tender for private debts.”

Emphasis mine : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_credit

So , how do we peacefully get this matter resolved ?