It's beyond legal and illegal. Were the articles of confederation "legal"? No. There were some loudmouths and some public votes and some folks redrawing legal boundaries. It's above law. "Give me control of a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws."
Just as food is a higher priority than friendships, economy is more substantial than polity. Part of the revolutionary war was over forcing colonists to use British pounds instead of colonial scrip. You don't read about that in the cross-tech media, which includes all major schoolbook publishers. About how that impoverished people and pissed them off. How important it was to general prosperity.
Point is, law isn't real. People and penalties are real. Pieces of paper can't defend our freedoms, or our rights. But together we can.
My textbooks certainly covered colonial scrip, as well as Ben Franklin's service in Great Britain where he was asked the source of the colonies' prosperity and he answered candidly. Yes they broke their economy deliberately, just as they continue to do to ours. Yes this was certainly the biggest contributor to the Revolutionary War, while a tax on tea was not.
What you're saying is the elite few who rule us have been above the law. I'm saying that's a problem. Have you seen the demonstration with a pitchfork? Let's add torches!
It's beyond legal and illegal. Were the articles of confederation "legal"? No. There were some loudmouths and some public votes and some folks redrawing legal boundaries. It's above law. "Give me control of a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws."
Just as food is a higher priority than friendships, economy is more substantial than polity. Part of the revolutionary war was over forcing colonists to use British pounds instead of colonial scrip. You don't read about that in the cross-tech media, which includes all major schoolbook publishers. About how that impoverished people and pissed them off. How important it was to general prosperity.
Point is, law isn't real. People and penalties are real. Pieces of paper can't defend our freedoms, or our rights. But together we can.
My textbooks certainly covered colonial scrip, as well as Ben Franklin's service in Great Britain where he was asked the source of the colonies' prosperity and he answered candidly. Yes they broke their economy deliberately, just as they continue to do to ours. Yes this was certainly the biggest contributor to the Revolutionary War, while a tax on tea was not.
What you're saying is the elite few who rule us have been above the law. I'm saying that's a problem. Have you seen the demonstration with a pitchfork? Let's add torches!