Badlands Media - Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 15

Episode Date: September 24, 2026

CannCon and Ashe in America step back into early American history with Chapter 15 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Lost Treasure Map. This week covers the colonies' painful experience with fiat paper money, the resolve of the Founding Fathers to keep the new nation off of unbacked currency, and how that resolve shaped the drafting of the Constitution itself. The hosts walk through the creation of a true American dollar and the prosperity that followed, then pivot to how those hard learned lessons quietly faded once the people who lived through them were gone. Expect a genuinely hopeful chapter compared to recent ones, some classic old radio banter, and a healthy amount of frustration at how far modern politicians have strayed from that original blueprint.  

The Badlands, one of the Badlands, explain those Badlands. That's a hell of a name. All right. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Badlands Book Club covering the creature from Jekyll Island, also affectionately known as... The Bad Mood Hour. Yeah. It's the Bad Mood Hour.

And in John's chat, I said I wrote the acronym for all hours are bad mood hour now. But then I was like, well, actually that's not true. So I'm in a good mood pretty much most of the time. Except when we're reading this book. Because this book is maddening. Maddening. It is. It is. But, you know, it has to be done.

And, you know, as I wrapped up my show with Alpha this morning, I told him at the end, you know, I was saying you got to tune into it. Because if you don't, if you don't know the creature from Jekyll Island, you have no idea. what the quote unquote deep state actually is. And I feel like to this specific issue is not detached from. It is completely intertwined in the issue of elections because elections are allegedly the manner in which we give our consent. And so the idea I toyed with yesterday on X when everybody's shouting about voting,

replace the word vote with consent to be governed. if you don't consent to be governed, you're a traitor. If you don't consent to be governed, and you start to that, that discussion starts to come alive in a way that is incredibly disturbing because, you know, the, the idea that our consent can be coerced from us, or that that's not consent at all.

As John Drake says, it's the right to say no. So why are so many people getting so mad that people might exercise their right to say no? Well, because maybe not exercising your sovereign will in a system that is corrupt gets us out of this. Chris Paul talked about this at guard. You know, withholding belief and withdrawing from the system as much as you can and living your values and living honorably in accordance with natural law. That's not violence. But everybody tells us if people don't vote, there will be violence.

Well, if everybody just lived their values, the only violence would be the state being violent against, violent against. us. So why would we vote to give them more power? I don't know. 12 Indy boy in the chat says got me for 10 minutes before leaving for a meeting. Love you all and see you soon in St. Pete Beach. I see you on replay. Ty, good to see you, man. I had a great time. Me and Ty and JC and Cam and Jackie and Christy all got to hang out on Sunday. And we went on kind of like the tour day Vegas. And he ended up keeping us out. And I blame you, Ty, until like one in the morning when we had to catch a when we had to be up at like six for a flight he got up earlier than us to be fair and uh that was a lot of fun we had a great time um hanging out with them on uh on sunday that was fantastic you know i realized today hmm i left my garment bag hanging in the wardrobe oh is there anything in it yeah like a bunch of outfits oh no did you call them and ask them to mail it to you yeah it's in process oh that was that's nice frustrating um i'm

have to call Ty later to, if I need to get a taxi, I need to him to tell me how taxis work. Is mansplaining how taxis work to me one night? I was way too drugged to remember. Drugged. That's totally drugged. It's absolutely drug. Come on, Brian. I did not.

So, I mean, I remember everything. I just like, it was weird because like I was there. but like I didn't feel like I was there. I remember everything. I remember you getting thrown in the cab. I remember walking through the New York, New York and almost running in the tie. Well, Ty takes like five steps for every one of mine.

So like by walking in front of me is a really bad thing normally. You know, like if we were in the Marine Corps, me and Ty like in drill, holy crap. There's a reason that in drill it goes from tallest to shortest, right? You don't want the short people in the front because if they're in the front, front, they're taking, their strides are a lot shorter. So it's better to make them take long strides

than to let them dictate the strides that you take. And so, yeah, tie walking in front of me is not a very good idea. Baby legs, Ty. That's a Rick and Morty quote. Oh, I got the baby legs. Here I go. Oh, boy. All right. Ty says I was first squad leader. All right. We're half squad leader. We only have one hour for this show. Okay, let's get into our sponsors then. And first up, we've got our friends over at Native Path. This episode is brought to you by Native Path grass-fed collagen for better bones, joints, skin, hair, and nails.

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are doomed to repeat its mistakes. It may come as a surprise to learn that the Federal Reserve system is America's fourth central bank, not its first. We've been through all this before, and each time the result has been the same. Interested in what happened, then let's set the coordinates of our time machine to the colony of Massachusetts and the year 1690 to activate, turn the page. So apparently we're not going more recent. We're going further back. I was hoping we were going to go more recent. Yeah, me too. I'm sure we'll get there.

But we still have this much book left. So I'm sure we'll get there eventually. Chapter 15. The Lost Treasure Map. The bitter experience of the American colonies with Fiat Money. The resolve of the founding fathers to represent. prohibit the new nation from resorting to paper money without backing, the drafting of the constitution to that end, the creation of a true American dollar, the prosperity that followed. In the golden days

of radio on the Edgar Bergen show, it might be Bergen, I don't know, the ventrilochist would ask his dummy Mortimer snurred, quote, how can you be so stupid? And the answer was always the same. After a moment of deep thought on the part of Mortimer, he would draw his reply, well, it ain't easy. When we look at the monetary chaos around us today, the evaporating value of the dollar and the collapsing financial institutions, we are compelled to ask, how did we get into this fix? And unfortunately, Mortimer's response would be quite appropriate. Okay, pause for just a second. Yeah.

What is the point of having a ventriloquist on the radio? Oh, so. Like, isn't it just two people talking at that point? It could be too. So it could be a fake ventriloquist. It could be two different people. I mean, I think it's more than likely a fake ventriloquist. Yeah.

Well, Ventriloquist is a ventriloquist because he's voicing both parts, right? Not moving his mouth. And he's moving the mouth of the dummy. There's no, yeah. The whole thing goes away. Wow. To find out how we got to where we are, it will be necessary. to know where we started. And a good place to begin that inquiry is with the Constitution of the United

States. Article 1, Section 8 and 10 say, Congress shall have the power to borrow money, to coin money, to regulate the value thereof in a foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures, and to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting. No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. The delegates were precise in their use of these words. Congress was given the power to coin money, not to print it. Thomas M. Cooley's Principles of Constitutional Law explains that to coin money is to stamp pieces of metal for use as a medium of exchange in commerce according to fixed standards of value. What was prohibited was to emit bills of credit, which, according to the speeches and writings of those who drafted the document, meant the printing of paper IOUs, which were intended to be circulated as money.

In other words, the printing of Fiat money, not backed by gold or silver. At first, it would seem that nothing could be more clear. Yet these two simple clauses have become the basis for literally thousands of pages of conflicting interpretation. The crux of the problem is that, while the Constitution clearly prohibits the states from issuing fiat money, it does not specifically prevent the federal government from doing so. That was truly an unfortunate oversight on the part of the documents framers, but they probably never in their wildest nightmares that their descendants could be so stupid as to not understand their intent. Furthermore, it ain't easy to miss their intent.

All one has to do is look at the monetary history that led up to the, the Constitutional Convention and to read the published letters and debates of the men who affix their signatures to that founding document. As one reads through the debates on the floor of the convention, one is struck by the passion that these delegates held on the subject of money. Every one of them could remember from his personal experience the utter chaos in the colonies caused by the issuance of fiat money. They spoke out against it in no uncertain terms and they were adamant that it should never be tolerated again in America at either the state or federal level. Yeah, and that's a great point because we talked earlier in the book about the continental

and how that thing was inflated beyond belief because they were, you know, just printing it whenever they needed to. And, you know, there's counterfeiting operations. Europe was flooding. Britain was flooding us with fake continentals, which caused the price to go absolutely through the roof. So you would assume that they knew, you know, know, when they were drafting the Constitution, let me just read that again to borrow money to coin, regulate the value thereof and of an foreign coin and fix the standard weights and measures and to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting, no state shall coin money. I mean, it says that Congress shall have the power to borrow money to coin money.

So, I mean, I guess they're saying that we're going to put an entity above Congress, above the federal government in the Constitution. And they have, I know, right. It's crazy. All right, paper money in the colonies. The first colonial experience with Fiat money was in the period from 1690 to 1764. Massachusetts was the first to use it as a means of financing its military raids against the French colonies in Quebec, or Quebec, as we've learned. The other colonies were quick to follow suit and within a few years were engaging in a virtual orgy of printing bills of credit.

There was no central bank involved. The process was simple and direct and was the reasoning behind it. as was the reasoning behind it. As one colonial legislator explained, quote, do you think, gentlemen, that I will consent to load my constituents with taxes when we can send to our printer and get a wagon load of money, one choir of which will pay for the whole? What's a choir?

I'll look it up. The consequence of this enlightened statesmanship were classics. Prices skyrocketed. Legal tender laws were enacted to force the colonists to accept the worthless paper, and the common man endured great personal losses and hardship. By the 1750s, Connecticut had price inflated by 800%. The Carolinas had inflated 900%, Massachusetts, 1,000%, and Rhode Island, 2300%.

The situation was so out of hand that beginning in 1751, the British Parliament stepped in, and in one of those rare instances where interference from the mother country actually benefited the colonies, it forced them to cease the production of fiat money. Henceforth, the Bank of England would be the only source. What followed was unforeseen by the promoters of fiat money. Amid great gloom about quote-unquote insufficient money, a miracle boom of prosperity occurred. The forced use of fiat money had compelled everyone to hoard their real money and use the worthless paper instead. Now that the paper was in disgrace, the colonists began to use their English and French and Dutch gold coins.

once again, prices rapidly adjusted to reality and commerce returned to a solid footing. It remains so even during the economic strain of the seven years war from 56 to 63, 1756, and during the period immediately prior to the revolution, here was a perfect example of how an economic system in distress can recover if government does not interfere with the healing process. Okay, so acquire is a standard unit of measurement for pay. paper, so like a ream, but it was 24 sheets. A ream is 20 choirs. Interesting. Did not know that.

Didn't know it either. Okay. Wartime inflation. But all of this came to a halt with the onset of colonial rebellion. Not only did open hostilities throw England deeper into the cogs and wheels of the central bank mechanism, it was also the compelling motive for the colonies to return to their printing presses. The following figures speak eloquently for themselves. At the beginning of the war, figures, at the beginning of the war, in 1775, the total money supply for the federated colonies stood at $12 million. $12 million.

In June of that year, the Continental Congress issued another $2 million before the notes were printed, another $1 million was authorized. By the end of the year, another 3 million. 19 million in 1776, 13 million in 1777, 64 million in 1778, 125 million in 1779, a total of 227 million in five years on top of a base of 12 million is an increase of about 2,000%. On top of this federal money, the states were doing the same in an approximately equal amount. and still more, the Continental Army, unable to get enough money from Congress, issued certificates for the purchase of supplies, totaling $200 million. $650 million created in five years on top of a base of $12 million is an expansion of the money supply of over 5,000 percent. Although the economy was devastated by this flood of Fiat money, most victims were totally unaware of the cause.

In 1777, the sentiment of a large segment of the population was expressed by the words of one patriotic lady who said, quote, What a shame it is that Congress should let the poor soldiers suffer when they have power to make just as much money as they choose. The immediate result of this money infusion was the appearance of prosperity. After all, everyone had more money, and that was perceived as a very good thing. But this was quickly followed by inflation and the same. as the self-destruct mechanism began to roll. In 1775, the colonial monetary unit called the Continental was valued at $1 in gold. In 1778, it was exchanged for 25 cents. By 1779, just four years from its issue, it was worth less than a penny and ceased to circulate as money at all. It was in that year

that George Washington wrote, quote, a wagon load of money will scarcely purchase a wagon load of provisions. The saying not worth a continental had its origin in this gloomy period. I have a footnote here, excuse me, on that patriotic old lady quote. It says the naivete of this lady may be humorous, but are Americans any more enlightened today? Nope. Would she not feel at home among our modern day electorate who clamor for legislation to pump federal reserve fee out money into projects to alleviate hardship among the poor and underemployed? 100%. 100% she would.

Go ahead, good. Keep going. I'm done. Oh, you're going to say? No, you don't have anything to say? I thought you were going to say something. No, I'll wait till the end. Okay.

The true nature of the inflation effect has never been more accurately perceived or more vividly described than it was by Thomas Jefferson. Quote, it will be asked, how will the two masses of continental and of state money have cost the people of the United States $72 million when they are to be redeemed now with about $6 million. I answer that the difference being $66 million has been lost on the paper bill separately by the successive holders of them. Everyone through whose hands a bill has passed lost on that bill would it lost in value during the time it was in his hands. This was a real tax on him. And in this way, the people of the United States actually contributed

those 66 millions of dollars during the war and by a mode of taxation the most oppressive of all because the most unequal of all how did they track all of this back then like when you think of the infrastructure we have today compared to back then like you know to get a message from uh well in in this period of time Massachusetts from Boston Philadelphia you know, some of those main hubs down to Georgia. I mean, you're talking like two or three weeks of travel. And I mean, it just, it, it's, it, it amazes me how they were able to like how people in the South were able to feel the, the inflation. Like, you would think that they would just be naive to it and so that they would wouldn't realize what was actually going on. I guess. So I, I just, um,

asked the machine, and it says, A vast and diverse array of primary financial records from 1776 survives today, documenting the chaotic funding and resulting hyperinflation. Because the Second Continental Congress lacked the power to tax, it relied almost exclusively entirely on printing paper money. These records are preserved across federal archives, congressional and national treasury records, including the journals of the Continental Congress,

the papers of the Continental Congress, the Continental Lottery Records, state fiscal records and debt certificates, state loan office ledgers, bills of credit in the physical currency that still exists. We saw Bessent show the wall of that, right? Military ledger books, George Washington's financial papers, quartermaster and commissary certificates. And there's a whole bunch more of records that exist. But I think you're onto something in terms of the narrative that is told about this you could find support for in those documents certainly but is that what the narrative should be based on the totality of the documents i have no idea history is written by the winners right yeah because i mean you hear

stories like in even going back to like world war one and in the civil war where you know like the the opposition or the army will go through a town and like people don't even know the war is over and it's been over for like a year. And people are like, oh, we didn't know it was over just because there was no, we didn't have the communication access that we have today. Yeah, that's a story we're told about the, you know, the Juneteenth, the inception of Juneteenth.

So it's Calera says, is there an episode that starts on chapter one of this book, or that book? Yes, you can go back on either YouTube or Rumble. There's a playlist feature, and you can click on Badlands Book Club. And just go back. it's probably about 25 episodes because we had some that were chapters that were two episodes long.

And it should be labeled, a creature from Jekyll Island, chapter one. And it's definitely worth it. If you got a long car ride or something, you can get caught. Do we have the playlists on YouTube too? Yes, we do. Okay, awesome.

Yeah, and we've done a bunch of books on this show. So when you're scrolling back, the thumbnail will change. And you'll see the very dark and gloomy bad mood hour thumbnail. But yeah, we're painstakingly making our way through this book. Yeah, we'll probably be like two more years. So all right, price controls and legal tender laws. It was natural that people struggled to find ways to escape the destruction of their savings.

And the two most obvious methods were to one, regularly adjust prices upward as the values of the money went downward. Or two, exchanged their goods and services only for gold coins. In response to colonial legislatures and their congenital legislatures and their concedure, Congress and the Continental Congress did what government always do to prevent it. Excuse me. That's a really important. Let me read that again. In response, the colonial legislatures in the Continental Congress did what governments always

do to prevent it. They restored, resorted to wage and price controls and to legal tender laws with harsh penalties for noncompliance. Under one such law, those who refuted to accept worthless money were even described as traitors it declared. Quote, if any person shall hereafter be so lost to all virtue in regard for his country as to refuse to accept its notes, such person shall be deemed an enemy of this country. Reminent, I mean, it is, it mirrors language that we're hearing today about people who refuse to

accept both the legitimacy of the money and the legitimacy of the votes. Yep. Those are loyalist talking points. Rhode Island is not only leveled a substantial fine for non-acceptance of its notes, but upon a second offense, an individual lost his citizenship. When this was declared unlawful by a panel of judges, the legislature reacted by dismissing the judges from office. Then, as now, those who suffered the most from fiat money were those who held the most trust

in government. In 1777, these were mostly the whigs. for it was they who patriotically held paper money and, as a result, lost their livelihoods and their life savings. The Tories, on the other hand, mistrusting both government and its paper money, passed the bills as quickly as possible in trade for real assets, especially gold. Consequently, as a group, they weathered the storm fairly well, but they often were derided by their less prudent neighbors as Tories, speculators, hoarders, and even traders. Today we call them Maxis. Silver, gold, and Bitcoin maximalists. We are the Tories.

All of this was painfully fresh in the memories of the delegates to the Continental Constitutional Convention and as the opening session convened in Philadelphia in 1787, there were angry mobs in the streets threatening the legislators. Looting was rampant. Businesses were bankrupt. Drunkenness and lawlessness were everywhere to be. be seen. The fruit of Fiat money had ripened and the delegates did not enjoy its taste. That is a fascinating picture of the constitutional convention that I've never heard before.

Yeah. Chaos in the streets as they're doing what they got to do. Looting. Yeah. I mean, that is drunkenness and lawlessness where everywhere the fruit of Fiat. Yeah. Yeah. It's the, it's a, it's the fall of society. and what came out of its ashes, right? In October of 1785, George Washington wrote, quote, the wheels of government are clogged and we are descending into the veil of confusion and darkness. A year later in a letter to James Madison,

he said, quote, no day was ever more clouded than the present. We are fast verging to anarchy. In February 1787, Washington wrote to Henry Knox, quote, if any person had told me that there would have been such formidable rebellion as exists, I would have thought him fit for a madhouse. Just three months prior to the opening of the convention, Washington voiced his reasons for rejecting the notion of fiat money. In answer to the complaint that there was not enough gold coin, specie, specie, specie, to satisfy the needs of commerce, he replied, quote,

the necessity arising from a want of specie is represented as greater than it really is. I contend that is by the substance, not the shadow of a thing, that we are to, that we are to be benefited. The wisdom of man, in my humble opinion, cannot at this time devise a plan by which the credit of paper money would be long supported. Consequently, the depreciation keeps pace with the quantity of the admission and articles for which it is exchanged rise in a greater ratio than the sinking value of the money. Wherein then is the farmer, the planter, the artisan benefited. An evil equally, an evil equally great is the door it immediately opens for speculation, by which the least designing and perhaps most valuable part of the communities are a community

are preyed upon by the more knowing and the crafty speculators. Speci is what it is and it is defined as we did this. I think on why we vote, we had the word specious and it's the same root. Coin or means coin money. or hard currency, especially gold or silver coin, as distinguished from paper money or bullion. So it's like not fiat. Right. Okay.

The constitutional convention. This was the prevailing view held by the great majority of delegates to the convention. They were adamant in their resolve to create a constitution which would prevent any state or, and especially the federal government itself from ever issued. chewing fiat money. They said so in unmistakable terms. Oliver Ellsworth from Connecticut, who was later was to become the third chief justice of the Supreme Court said, quote, This is a favorable moment to shut and bar the door against paper money. The mischief of the various experiments which have been made are now fresh in the public mind and have excited the disgust

of all the respectable parts of America. That's where we need to get to again, guys. That's where we need to get to again and trying to coerce us to stop criticizing the government systems is not going to get us there. It's going to keep us in here. But we got to win because the Democrats are worse. Yeah. There aren't Democrats and Republicans. It's the same thing. George Mason from Virginia told the delegates he had a, quote, moral hatred to paper money.

Mortal, mortal, mortal. Mortal, thank you. Mortal hatred to paper money. Previously, he had written to George Washington, quote, they may pass a law to issue paper money, but 20 laws will not make the people receive it. Paper money is founded upon fraud and navery. James Wilson from Pennsylvania said, quote, it will have the most salutary influence on the credit of the United States to remove the possibility of paper money.

John Langdon from New Hampshire warned that he would rather reject the whole plan of freedom than to grant the new government the right to issue fiat money. Wow. I'm going to read that one again. John Langdon from New Hampshire warned that he would rather reject the whole – oh, it's Federation, the whole plan of Federation than to grant the new government the right to issue Fiat money. So it was a line.

Like, are states not joining if you do this? George Reed from Delaware declared that a provision in the Constitution granting the new government the right to issue Fiat money, quote, would be as alarming as the mark of the beast in Revelation. Wow. Thomas Payne, although not a delegate to the convention, had written the previous year that he was strongly opposed to Fiat money, which he called counterfeiting by the state, and he especially aboard legal tender laws which forced the people to accept the counterfeit. He said, quote, the punishment of a member of a legislature who should move for such a law ought to be death. Wow.

That's, so that's sort of how I feel like I'm not going to articulate it in that way. because it would get me thrown in prison, right? But when people, this has always bothered me, when people are elected, swear an oath to the Constitution, and then immediately move for gun control and trying to disarm the population, they're immediately violating their oath to the Constitution.

Why is that permissible? Agreed. Me and Thomas Payne are homies. An interesting thought. If any further evidence is needed that the founding fathers intended to prohibit the federal government from issuing bills of credit, consider this. The first draft of the Constitution was copied in large measure from the original articles of

Confederation. When it was taken up for consideration by the delegates, therefore, it contained the old provision that had caused so much chaos. It stated, quote, the legislature of the United States shall have the power to borrow money and emit bills of credit. But after a lively discussion on the matter, the offending provision was voted to be removed from the Constitution by an overwhelming margin. It's just a source that footnote. It doesn't give us a number. I was hoping it give us what the margin was. Voicing the sentiment of the majority of the delegates, Alexander Hamilton said, quote, to emit an unfunded paper as the sign of value ought not to continue a formal part of the Constitution, nor ever hereafter to be employed.

being in its nature repugnant with abuses and liable to be made the engine of imposition and fraud. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. I know. We're agreeing with Hamilton? Yeah, but he was that, but he was campaigning. I mean, he was as establishment federalist as it gets.

And even he was against it. Yep. Wow. He was also later pushing for the central bank, wasn't he? Yeah, he under his, under his, was it his presidency, I believe, where the first bank came about. Yeah. Yeah. The Journal of the Convention for August 16th contains this notation, quote,

It was moved and seconded to strike out the words and emit bills of credit and the motion passed in the affirmative. The vote cleared by a margin of Ben, better than four to one. That was the line. Wow, four to one. Yeah, but removing emit bills of credit was the line. Like that's yeah. The Federal Reserve is unconstitutional. Seventy-five percent of the delegates to the constitutional convention said no fiat money. We can't do this. It's madness. Don't ever let anybody ever convince you, try to convince you of doing this ever again. Yeah. And it didn't take that long for us to get there, which is sad.

Somebody in the chat said, this is 1917. No, we're in 1787, I believe. Yeah, we're at the constitutional convention. The 10th Amendment states the power is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people. The power to issue bills of credit is definitely not delegated to the United States. States and it is specifically prohibited to the states. Therefore, if any power to use fiat money legally exists at all, it is reserved for the people. In other words, individuals and private institutions such as banks have the right to issue IOUs and hope that the public will use them as money. But government at any level is clearly prohibited by the Constitution from doing so. Fantastic.

This chapter's turning to be, turning out to be one of my favorites so far. I love getting the insight that our founding fathers had into particular issues that you don't normally get from, you know, watered down federal school education. Hamilton was never president. Yeah, I realized that after Saturday. He got shot by Aaron Burr. He was the secretary of the treasury until 1795, though. Yes. Right, but it was under him, I believe, that the first Federal Reserve was, was instituted, no?

I'm sure we'll get to. The bank, yeah, he was pushing for both bank and standing army by the end of President Washington's time in office. Okay. And that was a big, because that period, as I understand it, you know, and it's all storytelling. But that period is when the coalition that was formed to come together for the Constitution really fractured with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on opposite sides. And a big part of that division was the Standing Army and the move for banking. Yeah. I realize that after I said it. I always, whenever I think of Hamilton, I think of that first got milk commercial back in the day.

you remember that commercial you don't think of it was rapper who no who was the man that shot Alexander Hamilton and the guy's like um bro he's like huh he's like what he's like oh he goes to poor milk because he was eating a peanut butter sandwich yeah all right a suggestion for your congressman incidentally the constitution has never been amended on this point nor has the provision that only silver and gold can be used as lawful money it would be interesting if each reader of this book would send copies to his or her elected representatives in Washington, or at least a photocopy of this section. Every member of Congress has sworn to uphold the Constitution, and you might attach a short note asking them when they intend to begin.

You know who I'm sure has read this book, Ash? Lauren Bobert? No. My congressperson? No. You know who has read this book? Thomas Massey, who introduced the abolish the federal record. I'm not reliving your argument with Alpha this morning.

And I think if we buggy, we can actually get through this whole chapter. All right, all right, all right. Do not be disappointed if your reply is less than satisfactory. Politicians have a similar problem to that which judges have. It is not permissible to rock the boat from time to time, but they are not supposed to sink it. It is permissible. They are not supposed to sink it. Suits against the government challenging the constitutionality of our money system seldom get to the court.

It is safer for the justices to decline to accept these cases or to dismiss them as supposedly frivolous. Otherwise, they would face a difficult choice. Either they would have to multilate, logic, let's work here, mutilate logic in order to uphold the present inconsistencies, thus opening themselves to possible ridicule. Or they would have to declare in favor of the Constitution and literally cause the collapse of the entire deficit spending central bank mechanism. Such an act would take a considerable amount of courage. Not only would they suffer the wrath of the establishment that is that is nourished by that mechanism, they would also have to face a bewildered public, which, because of lack of knowledge about the Constitution or the nature of money,

could easily be convinced that the judges had lost their minds. Likewise, it is safer for politicians to respond to inquiries of this kind, merely by quoting some self-serving government document, which makes our Fiat money monetary system, sound quite legal and marvelously constitutional. Unfortunately, that is reality, until the public becomes considerably better informed than it is at present, we cannot expect too much from the courts or from Congress. Bringing this matter to the attention of your elected

representatives, however, is still well worth the effort because the process of education has to start somewhere, and Washington is an excellent place to begin. Returning to the point of this digression, however, it is important to know that the federal government was given a precisely limited monetary function, quote unquote, to coin money, and to, quote, regulate the value thereof. In view of the fact that gold and silver coin was specifically defined as the only kind of money to be allowed, there can be no doubt of what that, what was meant by the first half of that power, to coin money meant to mint precious metal coins, period. The second half is equally clear, both in the Constitution and in the discussions among the delegates, the power to

regulate the value of gold and silver coin was closely tied to the power to determine weights and measures. They are, in fact, one in the same. To regulate the values of coin is exactly the same as to set the nationally accepted value of a mile or a pound or a court. It is to create a standard against which a thing may be measured. The wording of this section on the Constitution can be traced to the original Articles of Confederation, which further clarifies the meaning that was generally understood at that time. Quote, the United States and Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value. of coin struck by their own authority or by that of the respective states fixing the standard of

weights and measures throughout the United States. The intent, therefore, was simply for Congress to determine the exact weight of a precious metal that would constitute the national monetary unit. The origin of the dollar. At the time of these deliberations, Spanish silver coins, called pieces of eight, had already become the de facto monetary unit. An official commission had been established by the Continental Congress to sample the circulating coins in the country and determine their average value by weight and purity. Charts were published, and all coins of various origin were listed by comparative value. Congress was already regulating the value of the nation's money by the time the Constitution was drafted. How these coins became dollars is an interesting

story. Edwin Vieira tells us, quote, monetary historians generally first to associate the dollar with one count schlick who began striking that's a evil villain name isn't it count anyone anyone with count in front of their name but then schlick who began striking such silver coins in 1519 and is it wakim's or joakim's i would say walkieffaria i don't know i'm not i'm not up on my bavarian pronunciations then called schlichtenhalers or j wakim schallers nailed it the coins became known simply as thailers which transliterated into dollars interestingly the american colonies did not adopt the dollar from england but from spain under that country's

monetary reform of fourteen ninety nine the silver reel became the Spanish money unit or a unit of account. A new coin consisting of eight reels also appeared. Variously known as pesos, duros, piasos de ocho, pieces of eight, or Spanish dollars because of their similarity in weight and fineness to the failure, the coins quickly achieved predominance in financial markets of the new world because of Spain's then important commercial and political, position. In 1785, Thomas Jefferson urged the adoption of the Spanish silver dollar as the

nation's official monetary unit in a pamphlet submitted to the delegates of the Continental Congress. He said, quote, taking into our view all-money transactions great and small, I question if a common measure of more convenient size than the dollar could be proposed. The unit or dollar is a known coin and the most familiar of all to the minds of people. It is already adopted. from south to north has identified our currency and therefore happily offers itself as a unit already introduced. On July 6, 1785, Congress unanimously voted to adopt the Spanish dollar as the official monetary unit of the United States. Jefferson realized, however, that this was not sufficient. Although the coin had been one of the most dependable in terms of weight and quality,

it still varied in content between issues, and a way had to be found to create one coin in value against another. That was, after all, the service that Congress was required to render when it was given power to regulate the value of money. Jefferson came directly to the point when he said, quote, if we determine that a dollar shall be our unit, we must then say with provision, precision what a dollar is. This coin, as struck at different times, of different weight and fineness, is of different values. The logic voiced by Jefferson could not be ignored. Two years later, after carefully examined the actual weight and fineness of the Spanish dollars currently in circulation, Congress defined the dollar. After ratification of the Constitution, a dollar would contain

371.25 grains of fine silver and all items in commerce, including other coins, were to be measured in value against that standard. As the Spaniards continued to reduce the silver content of their coins, the pressure for the minting of an American dollar of predictable value began to mount. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, in his 1791 report to Congress, urged the establishment of a federal mint, and also presented a powerful case for maintaining an inviolable standard for the coins to be produced by that mint.

He said, quote, the dollar originally contemplated in the money transactions of this country by successive diminutions. Is that right? Of its weight and fineness has sustained a depreciation of 5%. And yet the new dollar has currency in all payments in place of the old with scarcely any attention to the difference between them. The operation of this in depreciating the value. of property depending on past contracts and of all other property is apparent. Nor can it require argument to prove that a nation ought not to suffer the value of the property

of its citizens to fluctuate with the fluctuations of a foreign mint or to change with the changes in the regulations of a foreign sovereign. The quantity of gold and silver in the national coins corresponding with a given sum cannot be made less than heretofore without disturbing the balance of intrinsic value and making every acre of land as well as every bushel of wheat of less actual worth than in time past. This could not fail to distract the ideas of community and would be apt to breed discontent as well as among those who live on the income of their money as among the poorer classes of the people to whom the necessities of life would become dearer. So he was framing this in the context of inflation. And he was right.

I mean, because they were, this is the way I read it, I could be wrong, but they were relying on basically the Spanish central bank as opposed to their own central bank. And those, the silver content was fluctuating. So the value of the money was going up and down, yeah? Well, depending, yeah, depending on the year of the coin you had. So without consistency. Yeah. Buy metalism. Note in the preceding quotation that Hamilton referred to.

both gold and silver coins, not merely silver. That is because it was precisely at this time that Congress began to consider a bimetallic coinage. In retrospect, this was a mistake for throughout history, bimetalism has never worked well very long. It always had led to confusion and ultimately the disappearance as money of one of the metals. This is because there is always a subtle shifting of the relative values between gold and silver or any of the other two metals for that matter. depending on constantly changing supply and demand. We may set a value ratio of one to the other that is quite acceptable today, but even that ratio will no longer reflect reality.

The metal, which grows in the value over the other, will be hoarded or possibly even melted down because it will bring a higher price as metal than it will as money. That is precisely what happened in the early days of our republic. It was determined after careful analysis of the free market that the value of gold at that time was approximately 15 times the value of silver. The Coinage Act of 1792, accordingly set the relative value of gold to silver as 15 to 1. It then authorized the federal government to mint gold coins called the Eagles, and it specified that their value was $10. In other words, the gold coin would be equal in value to 10 silver coins. 10 silver coins, each of 371.25 grains of

fine silver would contain a total of 3,712.5 grains. The content of each eagle, therefore, was one-fifteenth that amount, or 247.5 grains of fine gold. Contrary to popular misconception, Congress did not create a gold dollar. It didn't do that until 57 years later in the Coinage Act of 1849. In fact, it reaffirmed that, quote, the money of the account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars or units, and again, defined those units as coins containing 371.25 grains of pure silver. What Congress did do was authorize the minting of a gold coin and arbitrarily fixed the value of the gold in that coin at 15 times the value of the dollar.

And it also stated that all silver gold coins produced, silver and gold coins produced in the federal mint were to be legal tender in accordance with their value based on weight and purity relative to the standard of the silver dollar. Oh, yes, another thing. It set the death penalty for anyone who debases the nation's coinage, a law which if enforced today, if enforced today, would wipe out the House of Representatives, the Senate, the managerial level of the Treasury Department, and the presidency as well. So we need to repeal that.

Is that law still in the books? whatever changed that, I mean, which is, I think, the Federal Reserve Act, we need to repeal. Free coinage. Perhaps the most important provision of this act, however, was the establishment of what is called free coinage. Under free coinage, any citizen may take raw or silver gold to the mint, and for a nominal fee, have it converted into coins for personal use. The government merely performs a technical function of creating the coin and stamping it with its insignia to certify their, correct weight and purity. The state's role in this is exactly the same as inspecting the scales in a grocery store or the meter on a gasoline pump. It is merely fulfilling the constitutional requirement

to set standards and verify the accuracy of weights and measures. Free coinage was to become an important part of the American success story. It lasted until the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, which not only terminated it, but even made it illegal for citizens to possess gold. We shall take a closer look at that dismal period in a later section, but for now it's important to recall the greatness of our monetary system as it once was. Elgin Gross Close explains, quote, the principle of free coinage has proved its practical worth as a deterrent to debasement and depreciation. Where coinage is on private account, there is no profit to the state in tampering with the standard, and there is no opportunity for such practice by the individual. The circulation of coins of similar appearance and

denomination, but of uncertain standard, the arbitrary and unpredictable modifications in the standard by autocratic government, and the temptations to profit were constantly dangled before despotic rulers. These were evils which had perplexed and harassed society and hindered the natural growth of economy since the days when coined money first appeared. By a stroke, they were swept away. At the same time, the institution of free coinage by giving stability and character to one of the chief instruments of organized economy made possible a more vigorous and healthy commercial life and gave prestige an increased substance to the government adopting it. Sound money and economic prosperity. This was indeed an auspicious beginning for the new nation,

and the result was immediately observable in an upsurge in prosperity. The December 16th, 1789 edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette declared, quote, since the federal constitution has removed all danger of our having a paper tender, our trade is advanced 50%. But that is just the beginning, was just the beginning. Historian Douglas North says that, quote, the year 1793 to 1808 were years of unparalleled prosperity. Louis or Louis Hacker, Lewis Hacker, describes the period as one of quote, unexampled business expansion, one of the greatest, in fact, the United States has had. The exports of the country mounted from 19 million's in 1799.

to 93 million in 1801. Furthermore, the federal deficit, which amounted to 28% of expenditures in 1792, dropped to 21% in 1795. By 1802, the deficit had disappeared altogether and had been replaced by a surplus. That was almost as large as the government's total spending. George Washington watched this economic miracle with great satisfaction and in correspondence to his friend Lafayette, with French statement and statesman and former, general in the Continental Army, Washington commented, quote, our country, my dear sir, is fast progressing in its political importance and social

happiness, end quote. In a letter to Catherine McAlee, Graham, he said, quote, the United States enjoys a sense of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for, end quote. And in a letter to the American poet and diplomat, David Humphreys, Washington exclaimed, quote, our public credit stands on that high ground, which three years ago, it would have been considered as a species of madness to have been to have foretold. On the specific subject of paper money without backing a gold or silver, without backing by gold or silver, Washington wrote, quote, we may one day become a great commercial and flourishing nation, but if in pursuit of the means, we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money

or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit, in its infancy. Words of wisdom. This then was the monetary blueprint laid down by the men who drafted our constitution. In retrospect, about the only flaw one can find was the attempt to set a fixed ratio

between the value of gold and silver. You okay, Tango? Rather than placing a dollar value on a gold coin, the mint should have imprinted the gold value in terms of weight and fineness. The free market then would have assigned it in exchange value in terms of goods and services, and that automatically would have determined its correct monetary value as a ratio to the silver dollars, which were bidding for

the purchase of the same items. It was inevitable, therefore, that soon after the $10 eagle was created, the value of gold over silver began to climb higher than the prescribed ratio of 15 to 1, and the eagles ceased to circulate. In later years with the discovery of the great gold fields in California and Australia, the process reversed itself and silver dollars disappeared from commerce. But even though this bimetalism led to a discrepancy between the actual conversion ratio and that which the government had prescribed, nevertheless, it took place in the open market and no one was greatly injured by the inconvenience. Throughout it all, there was just one standard. The defined silver content of a dollar. Furthermore, both the silver and gold coin,

were of intrinsic value and totally honest in their measure. No nation could do more for the prosperity of its coins for its citizens than that. Summary. The Constitution prohibits both the states and the federal government from issuing fiat money. This was the deliberate intent of the founding fathers who had bitter experience with fiat money before and especially during the Revolutionary War. In response, the need to have a to the need to have a performance, Precisely defined national monetary unit, Congress adopted the Spanish dollar, then currently in use, and defined the content of that dollar to be 371.25 grains per silver.

With the establishment of a federal mint, American silver coins were issued in accordance with that standard, and gold eagles also were produced, which were then equal in value to $10 silver dollars. more importantly free coinage was established wherein americans were able to convert their raw silver and gold into national coins officially certified by the government as to their intrinsic value the product of these measures was a period of sound money and great economic prosperity a period that would come to an end only when the next generation of americans forgot to read their history and return to the use of paper money and bills of credit the monetary plan laid down by the founding fathers was the product of collective genius. Nowhere in history can one find so many men in one legislative body who understood the fraud inherent in fiat money and the hidden taxation nature of inflation. There was never such an assembly of scholars and statesmen determined to set a safe course for the nation of their own creation. Literally, they handed us a treasure map. All we had to do was follow it to the economic security and national prosperity. But as we shall see in the following sections, that map was discarded when the lessons of history died out with those who had lived it.

And the next chapter is called The Creature Comes to America. Well, I forgot to put this little guy on my shoulder. Usually he sits, if you're new to the show, usually he sits on my shoulder while I read, but I forgot. I would say that our politicians today fully understand how it was actually intended. They just don't care anymore. You know, like back then they had to sell the... I bet most of it. My congressperson is Lauren Bobert, dude.

Okay, well, you do have retards in Congress, right? You do have utter retards. A lot of that. That's why they're selected. Yeah. I think, you know, a majority of them at least have an understanding. Now, they may not know the details like we just covered right there. But that's part of the system, right?

That's how they keep this thing rolling. And our founding fathers had to sell the ice. idea of this nation and granted I think they had true intentions but they had to sell the idea of a nation to the people and the people had just come off of the continental you know now looking forward you know when Griffin's writing this book uh you know 30 years ago we didn't have bitcoin we didn't have you know the crypto option and I don't want to say crypto I want to say stick with Bitcoin because it's a finite um you know a finite item but you know like like when we were talking on at Gart during one of the panels. And I know it's not his original idea, but J.B. was like,

oh, we just have to, we, somebody proposed re, uh, re, uh, valuing gold at $155,000 an ounce. Yeah. Which is probably about where it should be, but do you know what that would do to the world? Like if something like that were to actually happen, just bonkers, man. Well, you'd have reconciliation though. No, you wouldn't. No, you have a true up. You'd have a true. up. You'd have pure chaos. Immediately a car would be... Yeah. You'd have your tumultuous teenage years, but we'd get somewhere good. We'd get to the utopia.

A car would cost... Treasure map, Brian. Every car would cost a million dollars. And if you didn't have any gold, you would... Wait, revaluing it to how much an ounce? 155,000 an ounce. Oh, I thought... Sorry, I thought you said $155.

No, no, no. I thought you were talking about going the other door. No, no, it would go the... Oh, yeah, no, that's craziness. You do have to go to Bitcoin, I think, is going to be the most viable option. Gold and silver will absolutely still be relevant and have a place, and it's just gold will be, gold and silver will be compared to Bitcoin rather than to the fiat dollar. So maybe.

Let's talk a little bit briefly about our next great adventure. The Great American Restoration Tour. Fourteenth stop is coming to St. Pete Beach. I love St. Pete Beach. I love. Yeah. Caleb was conceived in St. Pete. Oh, boy.

Yeah. We moved before I actually gave birth to him, but we lived there when we lived in an apartment right over the causeway in St. Pete, not St. Pete Beach, but right over the causeway was St. Pete Beach. And it's a lot of fun. It's a beautiful beach, beautiful water. We did the John on the street in Vegas on Fremont Street, and that was fantastic. We're going to have John on the beach this time around, which should be a lot of fun. And, yeah, man, Gart. Ty said in John's chat, Gart fever is real.

I just bought my tickets. Gart fever is real. Like, we just, I haven't even got my garment bag yet. Back yet from Gart. I just unpacked this afternoon. And now we're talking about St. Pete, which is fantastic. I'm very excited. I think I'm going to try and bring my whole family.

November 12 through the 14th. Check it out. St. Pete Beach. Connect with Badlanders from across the country for an unforgettable weekend of freedom, community, and good times. You can check out Gart 14 merch packages and go to Badlandsmedia. tv slash events to grab your tickets and we will see you in St. Pete. Yeah.

Also, I don't know if I've told, I don't think I've told you this directly, but House of Tallow and House of Mini Tallow have a soft of. an alliance. We don't need alliances. We just fuck shit up. We'll see what happens. House of beard oil runs this shit. Like you don't mess with the house of beard oil. We're the only ones to have weapons in in in uh weapons. No, you don't have weapons. There's no weapons. In a realm divided by ancient houses. A war has begun in the house of lip balm. You stand accused of defying the decree of Madam Margie and refusing the razor. I've never heard of what the actual consequences are if we don't shave off our beards.

Waiting to find out. Because I have no intention of shaving. In this realm, even the beards may fall. You're one of us now. House of lotion. House of tallow. House of many tallow. House of beard oil.

And house of deodorant. He can't get away. with this. This would have never happened if she had Bitcoin. Eat a bag of Dragon D's, Jean. That's Kimmer-Kativated, punctured in Phil Spice. Wait, Mitch, he's a flash-ropped down. And brain, how the friction!

Looks like you guys could use a little help. The God Emperor. First of all, I've got to say, supporting six small American businesses, huge fan. Big fan of America. But I came here to tell you, you have a big problem at your border. A very big problem. An army of dry skin walkers is coming into your lands. And trust me, you do not want them here.

They're dry, they're cracked, they need to be hydrated. This is going to take conscious strength and lots of hydration. We have to spread the word. promo code walkers, 17% off at soft disclosure.com. What about Madam Marjorie and her beardless son? Already handled. I've got the brush on it. Put this on your beard to soften it, motherfucker.

Softdisclosure.com. Head over to that site. Sign up for the insider emails. That's where you get exclusive discounts, product giveaway and giveaways. And heads up for information that's coming next. Alpha just jumped out a turn and told everybody we were changing the size of the lip balm today while you were frozen. He was like, I'll just do soft disclosure. So he just starts riffing.

And yeah, we are going to be making the lip balm smaller. It will also make the cost of them less, which is fantastic. But they'll still last forever, way longer than a regular lip bomb because that's our formula, not necessarily the size. And there's a lot more fun changes coming to soft disclosure. So sign up at soft disclosure.com while you're there, use code walkers to save 17% off of all of our great products. lotion, beard oil, tallow, mini tallow, the sovereign alliance of game of lotions. And yeah, I know, I read that. I read Sheila's comment in the chat and I totally agree.

I love them all. So I'm going to do a little speculating here. Can I just ask you before you speculate? Why can't you forge your own sword? I can forge my own sword. I am forging my own sword. But you need a cam. Cam just cooling it off.

I did all the forging. Cam's just cooling it off. That's what you do in the water. The actual forging is the heating up and the beating of the metal, the working of the metal. I did that. I would like to add, you don't have any weapons.

It is, you don't seem to realize is that you're the blacksmith making weapons for all of us. No, I am the badass motherfucker that's making weapons for me and Cam. and me and Cam, well, me, especially, I'm the only one. You know who doesn't appear in Game of Lotions? Ghosts.

Jack Payne is not in Game of lotion. Ghost, yeah. And you know why? Because Zach Payne came and picked my ass up, and we went back to 2026, and we coming in with all of our guns for this battle. And so your sovereign alliance is going to have to deal with the wrath of five.

5, 5, 6, all right? So I'll tell you what. Don't sleep on that shit. That's why my ass ain't at the roundtable. That's why I'm not at the round table. Cam's there. I left him to be my little ears. But I'm telling you it's going to happen. There's a lot of backstory that I feel like is unsubstantiated.

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm not done. I get from that council meeting that G money is House of Lipbalm. He's dressed like them and he has no beard. I'm yelling at him and he's like, this would have never happened if she had Bitcoin. Talking about Madam Marjorie. I think he fled House of Lipbaum because he knows that they're wrong. And it's kind of like now.

Like, you know, we all we all sort of want to vote G off the island at certain points, but he's essentially one of us so we can't. Can we all agree that John's house is definitely the gayest? No, I think it's the most badass. And I love the way that hydrate your elbows is put into that song. Oh, that's the other thing I was going to say. I've watched this ad like 50 times.

And what I'm trying to do lately is get the lyrics of the female that's singing in the background because they're sort of hilarious. There's a whole drama unfolding, but you're watching the characters argue and stuff. So that's what I was trying to do is good stuff. And there's going to be a sequel soon.

And so for those, that don't know, a little Easter egg in there, the guy with the mask executing the beard is Green Star. Yes, and the woman behind Drake saying shave, shave, shave, shave is Cheryl. Yes. Also, that's supposed to be Green Star's voice. It's like, whee, we, we, we, we, we, we, me. All right, guys, thank you. I think J. Trey it wins, though. You're one of us. And he's like, mother. Also, also, also,

the two other people from present day that have traveled, President Trump, the God Emperor and and J.B. And both of them, J.B.'s working directly for Trump. I'm off, you know, getting all my ammunition

and ready to go. I think, I think DJT is going to be on my side in this battle. We'll see what happens, though. So Cam Cuxey in the chat says trust the house of beard oil plan ad and i think that's exactly where you guys are i'm always trusting the plan i trust all the plans blindly and without any question whatsoever yeah we'll see you guys later thanks for tuning in hit the thumbs up and we'll catch you tonight on sit rep hopefully hopefully hopefully there's a possibility there were no rants right you check uh no we had the one already. It turns out that naming a show the bad mood hour does not make it more profitable.

Who knew? No, not at all. Not at all. Bye guys.