Why didn't our Founders make central banks illegal by making it a law in our Constitution?

The Constitution, as written, does seem to outlaw debt-based production of money ("bills of credit"), and it also states that only Gold and Silver are recognized as the legal tender.


So, I believe, in their own minds, it was clear to our founding fathers that there would be no Central Banking scheme. The langauge used did not however refer explicitly to The Bank of England or a similar Central Bank construct.

But the Constitution also says somewhere that The Congress cannot delegate away its own powers to a third-party. By, transfering the control of our greatest resource, our Nation's money, over to a private monopoly and profiteering group, in 1913, The U.S. Congress violated the U.S. Constitution.

I am surprised that there were not efforts made then to have the U.S. Supreme Court declare that The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was totally unconstitutional.


The Executive branch and The U.S. Congress frequently violate and ignore the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Patriot Act, for example, is entirely unconstitutional, as well as is the way that we entered into the Korean War, The Vietnam War, The Iraq War, and other global military and paramilitary violence.

George W. Bush, arrogently declared, "The Constitution is just a god damn piece of paper." Yet, besides Congressman Dennis Kucinich, nobody anywhere within Washington or within the U.S. News Media ever speaks about the sheer criminality of everything that this Bush-Cheney administration has done (and continues to do).

So, the problem before us now, is that virtually all of today's Congressmen/women, and all of the U.S. News Media are totally uneducated and blissfully ignorant about the Federal Reserve and how it systematically plunges the Nation into debt (by its very existence), and robs the people of their own money. People just don't know. They think that it is a "benevolent institution", that is protecting our dollar, that we'd be dsyfunctional without it. They think that it is something that always was and always will be. They just don't know. Many won't even care. I didn't know myself, until year 2007 (when I became aware of some online documentaries, and the Ron Paul campaign itself).


So, this is an unprecedentedly tough battle to fight, when they have all the money, the power-of-arrest, all the guns, rubber-bullets, pepper-spray, tear-gas, taser guns, and they also have the Media itself.

Our founding fathers never had to fight against tyranny this great. An entire ocean separated them from the British Empire and sailing ships were the only means of transportation. So we cannot revolt in the same way today (so forget about guns - you'll just be shot down if you try to fight back that way).


We have to understand that we are like modern-day serfs, living under the thumb of a feudalist dark-age Empire all around us. Technology, like the Internet, is the one thing that gives us some hope for mass communications and organization. But the only way we can win this War is by a truly massive massive national and global education campaign (written for beginners), combined with peaceful, non-violent, resistence, and the formation of well-sponsered advocacy groups.

If we do this for 20-years, a tipping-point may someday be reached where public pressure will be brought about to end the FED control and robbery of our money system.


Unfortunately, the Constitution by itself will never save us. Our government, and the ever-circling, unelected, unconstitutional power groups around it (CFR, FedReserve, WTO, IMF, thinks-tanks, AIPAC, CIA, etc.) obsoleted and terminated any true implementation of the U.S. Constitution years ago, and they care little what it says and just do whatever they want today anyway..

Furthermore the U.S. Supreme Court has been refashioned over the years to advocate for executive secrecy, executive privilege, and Coporate privilege.

The people have no legal recourse of petitition here.
Only a massive public education campaign will save us.

Movies like:
1) "America: From Freedom To Fascism"
2) "The Money Masters"
3) "Zeitgeist - The Movie"

are a step in the right direction, but much, much, much more needs to be done.

Especially when it's not a question of "honest interpretation" -- the Constitution is routinely violated as I'm sure you realize.

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The point isn't really to get such an amendment into convention but to unify all of us around a piece of legislation that clearly explains how and why we want to "end the fed".

Not to mention that others could read the written amendment and understand why we want to end the fed.

The way I see it: The "Patriot" Act was written years before 9/11 and implemented right after the attacks.

Our "Amendment" could be written years before our government gets taken over by liberty-minded people and implemented right after that.

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comprehend what they are saying.
Consider that the way the central bank(federal reserve) work in unison with a federal government. THEY ARE BREAKING THE LAW!
What does it take...

The government has abused the commerce clause beyond all recognition. Its purpose is to prevent the states from setting up tariff barriers to interstate trade, not to give the government a pretext to interfere in anything and everything we do.

We should draft an amendment to strike the commerce clause, and replace it with a plainly worded prohibition of interstate trade barriers.

-jcr

You are correct. But the question was why didn't the Founders take care of this problem. The answer is that they did. They denied the government the power of chartering a central bank. But the mechanisms for enforcing the Constitution were not up to the task. And over time they got weaker. And ultimately they wasted away to nothing. So now the Constitution is close to being a blank slate. But not because the founders didn't try.

I'll be marking those 2 dates in my calendar for 2009 and beyond... I can at least have a drink for the man's efforts.

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"I killed the banks"

But if it wasnt in the Constitution, it doesnt matter what they debated before hand.

akak?

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

John F Kennedy