The United States should return to the Gold Standard:

First of all the constitution varies depending on how the individual interprets it guy. Federalists favored a strong national government, they believed in loose construction, a broad or flexible interpretation of the Constitution. If we strictly followed the interpretation of the constitution Thomas Jefferson wouldn't have been able to make the Louisiana Purchase, hence arguing against your "Reason #1; The Constitution says we should have a gold standard:" You quoted the following from the constitution "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures" I'm using loose interpretation in this case and stating that "coin Money" indicates the government has the power to issue money, I could say it doesn't have anything to do with what method of issuing money they have to follow. I did provide a source to support my claim. http://www.macrotrends.net... Gold is not a stable source of currency as shown in my source that I've shown you in round 3, gold in 1980 was worth 2066.45 within 5 years it was worth 679.16. as shown in the source above. Read the entire source guy "Between 1879 and 1933 the United States had financial panics in 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933" My source clearly says "the United States financial panics in 1884, 1890 ....." It never said there was a panic in 1879. It's interesting how defensive and rude you're getting. Actually gold was found during the gold rush in 1849, 2 billion worth at that time. The closest the US inflation calculator could adjust 2 billion worth is 48 billion is current USD, and that's comparing 2 billion in 1913 not 1849 to 2016. You're right mostly merchants and shopkeepers made a profit but gold was actually found. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com... http://www.history.com... "under the gold standard, pur economy grew at ~6% annually, infact, during the recession of 1873, our economy few at ~2% annually, just as much as we do over a good year under fiat." Where is this source of yours to back it up? You can't just choose the time lines that support your views either. https://www.globalfinancialdata.com... This graph proves the US economy did not grow as you stated it did, especially during the great depression before FDR. Again this depends "maybe in that our economy has minimal government influence" on your interpretation of minimal. Minimal government influence led to individuals such as John D Rockefeller creating the Standard Oil Company that dominated the oil industry in the late 1800s. Definition of minimal really varies your statement seems to indicate you want a very capitalistic country. No one likes banks being bailed out by the government like you said, the gold standard won't fix it as it's completely not feasible to bring back. I'm not offering a solution to control businesses as that's not what this debate is about. "To counter round 3: Gold/silver standard is not stable as shown in sources I've provided above, we will not come close to matching our 16~ trillion GDP as of Dec 31, 2015 even if we gathered all of the gold/silver our nation currently has in stock." "As of 2012 the US treasury held about 260 million troy ounces of gold reserves. At the market price of gold, about $1,662 an ounce (as of Dec. 27, 2012), that would equal about $434.6 billion in gold.: My quotes in round 2 and 3, where do you plan on providing proof that there is enough gold and silver privately owned to change the system back?