Simple fact.
Since gold and silver is the only legal tender, the States can coin their own. And “Make”-produce, it.
You quote a dictionary that is out of date with the dictionary of the time the constitution was ratified.
The Congress sets the value. On that I would agree. But since the Federal government has disobeyed the constitution, then the states have the constitutional authority to MAKE their own currency..all they have to do is pass legal tender laws in each state.
If you persist in your thinking, then you dont obey the constitution either and is as guilty or more so than the federal government.
BTW. Much as I hate to admit it, The founders meant that the bill of rights pertained ONLY to the Federal Government.
Read up on that one.
Wrong. Article I, Section 10 clearly states:
"No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money...."
You quote a dictionary that is out of date with the dictionary of the time the constitution was ratified.
Wrong again. I gave you a simple definition of the word, 'make' that has been in standard English usage since time immemorial. Here is the passage from Section 10 that you're misinterpreting:
"...make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts..."
Read that sentence fragment carefully. It does not say that the states should not make (produce) anything but gold and silver coins for the payment of debts. It says that the states shall not make (assign official value; sanction; authorize) anything but gold and silver coins as legal TENDER for the purpose of paying debts.
You're using the wrong definition of the word 'make' in your interpretation of the second part of that passage.
Section 10 begins with the words, "No state shall..." It's apparent from the wording in the beginning part of Section 10 that the states are barred from coining their own money. It makes no sense that the Framers would turn around and reverse themselves in the very same Section.
As far as whether or not the states should be allowed to coin their own money - that's what the Continental Congress tried to solve by writing the rules into Section 10. The country needed a uniform currency for the financial well-being and cohesion of the whole.
It would have been destructive to the ends of creating a unified nation, for every state to have its own currency with non-uniform values. The states willingly gave over that part of their sovereign rights for the greater good of the new republic.
I also believe that the states are superior to the federal government, and that the federal government was always intended to be a servant of The People and the states. Like everyone here, I recognize that our system of government, as practiced today, is completely inverted, and needs to be corrected.