The Constitution, moreover, mandates that the states make nothing but gold and silver coin a legal tender. Our state official has sworn an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and laws of Missouri, but it's not the law, but the profits, which are taken seriously. The question is vague. But these terms are the ones used in our laws. It isn't just state officials who seem befuddled by the money question.
Federal judges are confused, too.
Led by U.S. District Judge Spencer Williams, they have filed suit recently to obtain a pay raise, claiming that Congress has violated the Constitution's guarantee that their compensation shall not be diminished during their tenure. Williams claims that inflation has, in fact, diminished their incomes, and wants retroactive raises to remedy this injustice. At some point, I am sure the judges will swear to the truth of their claim that their incomes have been diminished. On the other hand, they've already sworn the opposite. They are swearing, in effect, that their incomes haven't changed over the years since their last raise.