A Resolution Calling for the Establishment and Use of Sound Money in the State of Idaho

Under the Provisions of Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution

WHEREAS, The absence of gold and silver coin, or its equivalent electronic gold currency, as
media of exchange between the state of Idaho and the citizens, in the exercise of the state's
essential sovereign prerogatives, functions, rights, powers, privileges, and duties abridges,
infringes and interferes with the sovereignty and independence of this state and the citizens of
Idaho and their rights, powers, privileges, immunities, and prerogatives as a political community
recognized and guaranteed to them by the Idaho Constitution; and

WHEREAS, This exposes this state and Idaho citizens, to chronic problems and potentially
serious crises that may arise from the economic and political instability of the present domestic
and international systems of coinage, currency, banking, and credit in which gold and silver have
no effective role; and

WHEREAS, This exposes this state and Idaho citizens, to the chronic depreciation of media of
exchange other than gold and silver, which losses in purchasing power amount to the incremental
confiscation of their property without just compensation or due process as guaranteed by the
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution; and

WHEREAS, This restricts the ability of this state and Idaho citizens, to fulfill and enjoy the
mandates and guarantees of the Idaho Constitution, to secure a sound economy, and to maintain a
firm fiscal foundation for a policy and program of maintaining security within this state's
boundaries and participating effectively in a national program of homeland security;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE _______ COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL

COMMITTEE: In order to preserve the sovereignty and independence of this state and Idaho
citizens, and their rights, powers, privileges, immunities, and prerogatives as a political
community, as well as to protect, provide for, and promote the people's safety, health, welfare,
security, and economic prosperity, it is imperatively necessary and proper for the legislature to
guarantee to and provide for this state a constitutional and economically sound media of
exchange by exercising this state's power, privilege, and duty to make "gold and silver coin a
tender in payment of debts", as reserved to and required of each state under Article I, Section 10,
of the United States Constitution and confirmed by the 10th Amendment to the United States
Constitution; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That other powers are reserved to this and every state by the 10th
Amendment to the United States Constitution and to this state by the Idaho Constitution that
relate to this state's choice of media of exchange for the fulfillment of Idaho’s essential sovereign
functions; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That that the Secretary of the _______ County Republican
Central Committee is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Resolution to the
state legislators representing this county, the Speaker of the House, the President Pro Tem of the
Senate, and the Governor of Idaho.