The Constitutionality of a Central Bank

[AndreaGail]

WOW!!

full lesson plan here -->
http://www.stlouisfed.org/education_resources/assets/lesson_plans/Constitution_of_Central_Bank_formatted.pdf


Fed To Take Propaganda To The Schoolroom: Will Teach Grade 8-12 Students About Constitutionality Of... The Fed
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/12/2012 16:51 -0400

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Back in September we noted a peculiar RFP by the Fed which sought to become a secret 'big brother' to the social media world, and to "monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria." The Fed's desired product should be able to "determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document"... "The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc." Most importantly, the "Listening Platform" should be able to "Handle crisis situations, Continuously monitor conversations, and Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers." While it is unclear just how successful the Fed has been in eavesdropping on various critical blogs, and divining "sentiment", it now appears that the propaganda masters at the Office of Central Planning have decided to go for young American minds while they are still pliable. It appears that as part of its reenactment of Goebbels "economic education" curriculum, the Fed will now directly appeal to K 8-12 student, in which it will elucidate on the premise of "Constitutionality of a Central Bank." You know - just in case said young (and soon to be very unemployed) minds get ideas that heaven forbid, the master bank running the US is not exactly constitutional - you know, that whole thing between Andrew Jackson and the Second Bank of the United States...

And in case one is wondering what dogmatic propaganda their childredn will be filled with, here is tje course outline.

Lesson Description

The Constitution of the United States outlines the basic principles of the U.S. government. This lesson focuses on the express and implied powers of Congress and the power of the Supreme Court to decide whether a law is unconstitutional. In this lesson, students learn about McCulloch v. Maryland, a case decided in 1819 over (1) whether the state of Maryland had the right to tax the Second Bank of the United States and (2) whether Congress had violated the Constitution in establishing the Bank. Students also review the expressed powers of Congress identified in the Constitution and analyze how Congress implements the necessary and proper (elastic) clause to enact its expressed powers. Finally, students use their knowledge of McCulloch v. Maryland and the necessary and proper clause to consider the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve System.

Concepts

Expressed powers
Federal Reserve Act
Fiat money
Implied powers
Necessary and proper (elastic) clause
Precedent
Value of money [ZH: lol]

Objectives

Students will:

•define expressed powers, implied powers, precedent, fiat money, the Federal Reserve Act, the necessary and proper (elastic) clause, and the value of money;
•cite examples of the expressed powers granted to Congress in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution;
•explain the meaning of the necessary and proper (elastic) clause;
•explain the significance of the McCulloch vs. Maryland Supreme Court case; and
•give examples of the implied powers necessary to implement various expressed powers
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/fed-take-propaganda-schoolroom-will-teach-k-8-12-students-about-constitutionality-fed

[Glass]

troubling. for one there are NO IMPLIED POWERS in the constitution. The Govt has the duty to execute EXPLICIT POWERS only. There are no other powers contained in the constitution.

[AndreaGail]

there are some real gems in the "answer key"


Visual 3: Expressed and Implied Powers—Answer Key
To lay and collect taxes (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1)
• To punish tax evaders ::)


The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States. The Constitution does not
specifically say that there should be a central bank. Describe how you might defend
Congress’ delegation of the power to coin money and regulate the value of money to
the Federal Reserve.

In Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the Constitution, Congress is given the expressed
power to “coin Money, [and] regulate the Value thereof.” Also, in Section 8, Congress is
given the power “to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into
Execution the foregoing Powers, and all the Powers vested by this Constitution in the
Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof” (Clause 18).
This implied power gave Congress the power to pass the Federal Reserve Act in 1913,
which created and Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States.

[Gaillo]

If all of you knew the extent to which Alexander Hamilton (the foreign bastard fucking miserable FUCK of a central-banking authority worshipping monarchist masonic SHITHEAD) had in promoting and making this "U.S." constitution so many of you worship into a binding REALITY, you would begin to question MANY aspects of its imperfect wording/meaning.

Just sayin'

(Oh... BTW... Bless Aaron Burr to the ends of the Earth!) ;)

[Glass]

there are some real gems in the "answer key"

Where did you get the answer key thingy?

So would you answer, the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve Act 1913 is difficult to conclude because the orginal Act was not rattified according to ?? procedure (don't know if it's a constitutional procedure or something else). A chorum/minimum of states did not ratify the Act as required in accordance with (the) procedure. .... or words to that effect.

I guess the Creature from Jeckyll Island is the go to resource for this topic.

They only seem to mention 1 court cite. It was a long time ago. Has there been any since then that might deal with this giving different decision?

[AndreaGail]

Where did you get the answer key thingy?



ITs in the first link, about 1/2 way down the document