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[–] 14746685? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The Federal Reserve Note cannot Constitutionally be "tender in the payment of debts":

1) Congress is not granted any authority in the Constitution to make anything whatsoever "tender in the payment of debts."

2) The Constitution grants the power of controlling what is, or is not, "tender in the payment of debts" to the several states.

3) The several states are Constitutionally prohibited from making anything other than gold and silver coins "tender in the payment of debts."

US Sovereign debt cannot be Constitutionally paid back for that reason alone. That said, I think the 14th Amendment argument also has merit, as does the legal requirement that contracts be for a legal purpose. Funding Unconstitutional government programs is not a legal purpose. Nor is using "money" that can't Constitutionally be money to fund the government, nor using it to bind the Federal government to repayment thereof.