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"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."
remember that the District of Columbia is not a state, it is a legal federal administrative division and technically separate from the United States.
it is not part of any individual state, but it is a part of the united states. your argument is a cop out. He has a valid point.
it's called the Residence Act of 1790 which allows the creation of a sovereign federal administrative district , Washington DC is a sovereign state. half of the district follows the laws of VA and the other half the laws of Maryland with Congress having full authority over the district. it was specifically designed that way so that the district could assume states debts.
my argument is documented US legislative history. which one of the 50 US states is Washington DC again?
The Fifty States (maps, flags, geography, population, statistics) — FactMonster.com
the constitution is the supreme law of the land. isn't dc on US soil and operated by the us govt?
Smoothy....Milton Friedman fucked us with his 8T dollar "mistake" in regards to his monetary theory which was implemented in the 80's under Reagan.
here's a little tid bit that goes along with that:
"A third reserve currency is just what America needs. As Prof Micheal Pettis from Beijing University has argued, holding the world?s reserve currency is an ?exorbitant burden? that the US could do without.
The Triffin Dilemma ? advanced by the Belgian economist Robert Triffin in the 1960s ? suggests that the holder of the paramount currency faces an inherent contradiction. It must run a structural trade deficit over time to keep the system afloat, but this will undermine its own economy. The system self-destructs.
A partial Gold Standard ? created by the global market, and beholden to nobody ? is the best of all worlds. It offers a store of value (though no yield). It acts a balancing force. It is not dominant enough to smother the system.
Let us have three world currencies, a tripod with a golden leg. It might even be stable."
it's called the Residence Act of 1790 which allows the creation of a sovereign federal administrative district , Washington DC is a sovereign state. half of the district follows the laws of VA and the other half the laws of Maryland with Congress having full authority over the district. it was specifically designed that way so that the district could assume states debts.
my argument is documented US legislative history. which one of the 50 US states is Washington DC again?
The Fifty States (maps, flags, geography, population, statistics) ? FactMonster.com
Good post LAM. For such a non-liberal I am shocked you support him. Though he does spell everything out clearly.