On the record
As it is, the constitution imposes no prohibition upon the coining of money by individuals, but only by State governments.
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Lysander Spooner
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Editor's note · Context
Spooner points out the constitutional allowance for individuals to coin money, challenging state control.
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They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.