Herein are contained three five-page excerpts from Volume I of Pieces of Eight. They are exact copies of pages from the book in html format. This means, unfortunately, that the pages may not look perfectly formated on your particular machine. (For example the last sentence may end before it reaches the margin.) The larger links lead to html pages that have been formated for machines set at 640x480 screen resolution. There is also a link that leads to excerpts that are formated for for those whose machines are set at 1024x768 screen resolution. Please note that this applies only to the excerpts and not to the Table of Contents.
This excerpt discuses Congress's authority "To * * * regulate the Value [of Money]",
one of the most straightforward, yet most widely misunderstood, of the monetary powers.
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This excerpt discusses the Coinage Act of 1792, which lays out in the plainest statutory language the Founding Father's understanding of the constitutional monetary system.
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This excerpt discusses cases in which federal courts have refused to adjudicate the unconstitutionality of the Federal Reserve System's key component, the Federal Open Market Committee.
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