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  2. Year: 2023
  3. Month: February

Month: February 2023

Paper Money: The Debtors’ Panacea or An Instrument of Fraud

Posted on February 7, 2023

The Constitutional Convention was called in 1787 to increase the powers of the Confederation Congress and to place restraints on the states. Article I, section 10 of the eventually proposed and ratified Constitution listed a …

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