WHY did they DO that??

"Why did the founders include the following in the U.S. Constitution? -- "No State shall ... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts" --Article I, Section 10, Clause 1

Can you name that substance?

It wasn’t all that long ago that money was actually made of something scarce–-a real asset that couldn’t be conjured at will by an appointed bureaucrat. --Simon Black of Sovereign Man, Guest Post: The Experiment Has Failed. Are You Ready? | ZeroHedge