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.
The Congress shall have the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures:
what fiat currency?? and federal reserve was asetup by andrew jackson to do away with banks who were trying to take advantage of average americans and gain power he felt should rest with the federal government.
Companies are more powerful then our government. Here this is how our monetary system really works. Skip to 4min to avoid intro.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912#
The constitution is only as valuable as we make it through our knowledge of it and desire to see it followed. We haven't followed through with our part of that deal since about 1790. About 99.9% of what the Federal Government does today is unconstitutional.