Is the Currency Act of 1764 still in force in the US?

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_Act

I can’t find a law repealing or clause superceeding it like I can for other acts.

I know states during the revolution and for a while printed their money, but I don’t know if they were just disregarding the law minus ruling against it or repealing it. I doubt they much cared for Parliament that much at the time and saw no issue, but we accepted all older laws unless otherwise rejected by Congress.

I know all debts by the states is ultimately owed by Congress as well, Congress has the power to tax, but so do state legislatures. Is the Currency Act still in force, can states print currency for both public and private debt, or just public as the Brits (dirty foreigners) tried to dictate to us?

Secondly, if it is in force, is it Congress that has to repeal, or can any state legislature repeal? After all, Congress didn’t exist back in the day till late in the colonial experience, and the difference between state vs federal government wasn’t as strong, later on, our first constitution gave strong state rights, stringer than now. Can individual states upchuck these laws, or does Congress have supremacy alone? I can’t find a congressional supremacy clause for rewriting parliamentary supremacy era laws.

Lastly, if all the above is accepted still in force, does it apply to all states? Not all states today started off as colonies. I think it was Vermont not in the original union (undecided territory), or maybe New Hampshire… plus my state of West Virginia had existence in the state of Virginia… would “West Virginia” be barred from printing its own currency, but Vermont can, or both disallowed, but Nevada and Alaska can?

I bring this up because many states are considering printing their own currency. I don’t know if it is technically legal, and if Parliament era laws can be overturned by any Republican institution, including states or even county or city councils. Can your city print its own money, after rejecting this law?

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You ever go to any .gov sites? Do the search Currency act .gov See what you get. If you find the law do not forget to check the definitions(very important when reading laws)

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Tender_Cases

I always find this stuff when not looking for it. I went looking into Democratic supreme court justices during the civil war (always struck me as awkward they stayed with the union, but shows what they thought of the constitutionality of succession in not quitting).

Article I, Section 10

I gotta figure out how Chase, as the Secretary of the Treasurer, made paper money, with his face on it, during the civil war, then had the nerve to declare the very same bills with his face on the unconstitutional… I’m also a bit stumped, if it was ruled unconstitutional, and the next year ruled constitutional by the court, how our civil war debts survived.

Honestly, I need to see how the hell Chase argued the debt the government contracted was unconstitutional. His is his fucking face on that dollar.

Needless to say, the Currency Law of 1764 no matter what, was ended in 1789. I don’t know about prior, but that’s it there. Only thing states can make is gold and silver coins (doesn’t say how much). So… this kills the whole idea of states printing their own currency, which we occasionally hear of.

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Actually the republic states are not obligated by that. Do you know which states are states by treaty? There are a few states. All states have their own constitution that can supercede the federal constitution and laws if the people actually know what they are doing.

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I don’t understand, can you explain that differently?

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Yea, I am a bit tired right now, been up since 2am and am sipping beer to kick my butt a bit to actually sleep, I will clarify tomorrow. But, maybe you could research states that are states by treaty. Texas is one.

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Texas isn’t a state by treaty, it was annexed by treaty, and immediately accepted as a state. It went through the same state process the rest went through of contracted negotiations. Occurred today, Feb 14, 1844.

It gave up its sovereignty in the Annexation, and as a state is bound by the constitutional clauses that regulate states. It wasn’t ever British, but formerly Mexican. I don’t know what, if any, civil laws are still in force in Texas from its Mexican and French days, but know it’s not considered Bijuralism like Louisiana is with the French and Spanish remnants of constitutionalism based on civil instead of common law, and even in this case has to acceot common law in federal cases, or for high crimes.

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statutes.legis.state.tx.us/D … m/CN.1.htm
Read , study the wording in the first two parts.

The other states that are states that reserve the right to secede have similar constitution clauses etc.
if you have any interest in government laws , wording etc. do not use wiki . Most documents are online and can be found with a bit of research. What schools teach is not fully accurate. Most people just trust given interpretations and never see or look for definitions. Example:
John is gay.
What do I mean by that?

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No state has the right to succeed, any wording that claims otherwise is void by the federal constitution. When you become a state, you surrender your sovereignty.

It be like selling yourself into slavery with the right to unslave yourself. A slave master would be fully in the right to laugh his ass off and whip you back into labor if one day you thought you had enough… your no longer in a position of enforcing your own contracts giving exceptions, it has been given to others.

So your statement is a myth, a rather bad one. Much less so since Texas since then tried to join the Confederacy and was dragged back into union kicking and screaming. You can go over the legalities of this with Mr. Lincoln, as you will never get anything but the above reply from me, or other learned Americans. They don’t have the right to succeed, period. The Republic of Texas died with Sam Houston, when its lands, people, and legal character was given over in full to Congress, in perpetual, involuntary union, as in FOREVER.

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Ok