This series is written by a private citizen with an abiding
interest in U.S. history and particularly its founding
documents: The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution.
* * * Consider if you will the fact that had we followed the
Constitution during the past 110 years, we would not have the
following: • A Federal Reserve System • An income tax and an
Internal Revenue Service • Undeclared wars in Korea, Vietnam and
Iraq • Department of Education • Department of Energy None of
these situations is authorized or possible under the
Constitution. In fact, they are all violations of the basic
document, the 16th Amendment (income tax) notwithstanding.
Consider what that would mean in terms of our situation today.
There would have been no inflation to speak of since the
currency of the country would have been controlled by Article I,
Sec. 8 ¶5. That paragraph authorizes only Congress to ” . . coin
Money, regulate the value thereof … " not the Federal Reserve
which has created money such that you, the citize