South Carolina May Adopt Own Currency

Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall | Feb. 13, 2011 (News Report)

Picking up on the ancestral tradition, South Carolinians have spent much of the last two years asserting various forms of independence from the federal government and attempting to block different federal laws. Now a state senator from the Palmetto State has decided it's time for South Carolina to create its own currency.

State Sen. Lee Bright (R-Roebuck) says that federal spending and increased monetary intervention by the Fed have placed the ... Full Story »

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by Fred Gatlin - Feb. 13, 2011

This story is limited both in length and facts. It includes one legislator ideas and one other legislator’s short concern.

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by Chris Finnie - Feb. 13, 2011

Surprised Marshall didn't point out that Bright took an oath of office to support the Constitution. This violates it. I've posted the relevant language under comments.

Section 10 - Powers prohibited of States No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

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