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Victoria C. Woodhull: “There is no more reason why money should fluctuate in its capacity of measuring or of being measured than there is that…”

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There is no more reason why money should fluctuate in its capacity of measuring or of being measured than there is that the foot should grow longer or shorter, or the pound greater or less, and there is just the same reason why it should not.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull argues that money should not fluctuate in its measuring capacity, similar to fixed units of measurement.

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