Restore Sound Money in North Carolina With H836
Legislative Alerts
Members of the North Carolina General Assembly are seeking to enact H836, which would help restore sound money and enforce the U.S. Constitution’s monetary provisions.
Contact your state legislators
Please help enact H836 by contacting your state legislators. Urge them to support strong legislation that enforces the U.S. Constitution and restores sound monetary policy.
Why it Matters
Members of the North Carolina General Assembly are seeking to enact legislation helping restore sound money and enforce the U.S. Constitution’s monetary provisions.
House Bill 836 (H836), titled the North Carolina Sound Money Act, is sponsored by Representative Mark Brody (R-Monroe) and four other representatives. If enacted, it would officially recognize gold and silver as legal tender, an important step toward treating gold and silver as money — as the U.S. Constitution requires.
H836 is a good first step toward enforcing the Constitution’s monetary provisions. Article I, Section 10, of the U.S. Constitution plainly states that “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” It’s long overdue that states begin to enforce this provision once again.
Additionally, this bill is an important step toward nullifying the unconstitutional Federal Reserve, which has a monopoly on money, and also reducing North Carolina’s financial dependence on the federal government. Recognizing gold and silver as legal tender will also help North Carolina avoid the a potential central bank digital currency, which would severely threaten privacy and individual freedom.
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution obligates state officials to uphold the Constitution and nullify all laws not “made in Pursuance” of it. Officials at all levels of government must push back against the federal government’s many unconstitutional laws and agencies, and robustly enforce the Constitution and only those laws “made in Pursuance thereof.”
Urge your state representative and senator to support H836 and fully restore sound money in North Carolina.