“.make anything but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts...”
They may not coin money..which the founders said was worthless money..like paper.
But they may coin-gold and silver-a tender-in payment-of debts.
End of story. Until you can prove to me that the founders accepted the idea anything other than Gold and Silver, legal tender for the payments of debt, your argument is a loss.
This note, is legal tender for all debts, public or private, and is redeemable in lawful money at the US Treasury or any Federal Reserve Bank.
You remember that, or are you to young? If that note wasnt lawful money, then what was? Gold and Silver was. And since the US Federal government is printing unlawful money, the states must exercise their authority to overturn the US Federal governments disobeying of the constitution and coin their own lawful money.
They may not coin money..which the founders said was worthless money..like paper.
You're simply reading the above passage from the Constitution wrong. The operative word there, is "make".
You're reading it to mean "produce", which is not what the word means in that sentence. In that sentence, the word, "make" means "cause, or cause to be executed", or, "by means of", or, "to impart authority or quality to".
In other words, the only thing that states were given the authority to use as legal tender in the payment of debts was gold and silver coin, which ONLY the US Congress was given the authority to produce and regulate.
But they may coin-gold and silver-a tender-in payment-of debts.
No, they may NOT coin gold and silver coin for any purpose. That is spelled out in the clause preceding that one.
What they CAN do, is ONLY "make" gold and silver coin the legal tender for the payment of debts. They do not have the authority to "make" any other medium a legal tender for the payment of debts.