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The international dollar is supposedly based on oil so it's commodity based. Fiat money is for the 'little people'.
Constitutional silver and gold is often used to describe the legal tender coins that were issued and circulated by the United States. These coins would be the American Gold Coins minted prior to President Roosevelt’s gold confiscation act of 1933 (Executive Order 6102) as well as silver dimes, quarters, and half-dollars before 1965.
Article I, Section 8 lays out the powers explicitly granted to the US Congress.Among these powers granted to the US Congress was the power to “Coin Money”. There is, however, nothing in this article that states that the coined money must be made of gold and silver.
For instance, a $10 gold coin was known as an Eagle and was to contain 16 grams of pure gold.
The biggest shock to those who want a return to Wildcat Banking is that they issued banknotes like crazy.
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 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."
-The Creature from Jekyll Island pg 324