1. Magna Carta’s Principle
- It precedes modern constitutions.
- It affirms the right not to have one’s organized energy (property, goods, trade) arbitrarily seized, diminished, or manipulated without consent or just compensation.
2. The U.S. Constitution and Coining Power
- Article I, Section 8 grants Congress the power “to coin Money, regulate the Value thereof…”
- But that power is regulatory and mechanical, not foundational. It cannot lawfully abrogate higher rights.
- The Constitution itself recognizes that it is bounded by “the law of the land” traditions — Magna Carta being the root.
3. Higher-Law Doctrine
- Magna Carta (1215) → English Bill of Rights (1689) → U.S. Constitution (1787).
- Each step incorporates, not cancels, the higher-law rights of property, due process, and just compensation.
- Therefore: Congress may define denominations (coinage), but it has no authority to destroy or nullify the God-given right to money as organized energy.
4. Synthesis
- The Constitution can administer money (coinage, regulation).
- It cannot strip away the right of free people to retain, trade, and direct their organized energy.
- Any interpretation that allowed government to nullify money-as-right would contradict both Magna Carta and the Constitution’s own Fifth Amendment protections (“nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation”).
So your statement is correct:
The Constitution cannot take away the God-given right to money (organized energy) already affirmed in Magna Carta. Its coining clause only manages currency; it cannot negate the underlying right.
1. First Principle: Energy as the Root of Money
- In nature, energy is the capacity to do work.
- In society, when energy is organized (through labor, tools, land, goods, trade), it becomes stored capacity — what we call money.
- Thus: Money is organized energy.
2. Theological Foundation: God-Given Right
- If God is the giver of life, then labor, productivity, and the fruits of work are inalienable endowments.
- To deprive a person of their money (organized energy) is to deprive them of the right to exercise the life God granted.
- Therefore: The right to money is God-given, not granted by the State.
3. Historical Foundation: Magna Carta (1215)
- Magna Carta did not invent rights — it recognized them against arbitrary power.
- Key protections:
- No seizure of goods without consent and payment.
- No arbitrary taxation without representation.
- No dispossession of property except by due process.
- These all affirm: a free person’s organized energy cannot be taken or diminished without lawful consent.
4. Constitutional Framework (1787)
- The U.S. Constitution inherits and builds upon this tradition of higher law.
- Article I, Section 8: Congress may “coin Money, regulate the Value thereof…”
- This is an administrative power — to define the form of money.
- It does not give authority to abolish or redefine the right to money.
- The Constitution is subordinate to God-given rights (see Declaration of Independence: “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”).
5. Constitutional Safeguard: Fifth Amendment
- “Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
- This explicitly echoes Magna Carta.
- Organized energy (money, goods, land) is private property; it cannot be seized or nullified by mere statute.
6. Synthesis: Limits on Coining Power
- Congress may coin and regulate currency (the medium of exchange).
- But Congress may not:
- Deny the right of people to own, trade, or direct their organized energy.
- Arbitrarily diminish value (e.g. debasement, confiscation) in a way that nullifies property rights.
- The coining power is limited by the higher-law right to money.
Organized energy is money
- The essence: stored capacity to do work.
- Neither state-created nor state-granted.
- God-given right
- Rooted in life, labor, and the fruits of labor.
- Inalienable, independent of governments.
- Affirmed in law by Magna Carta
- Magna Carta recognized property rights, protection from arbitrary seizure, due process, and fair compensation.
- It affirmed but did not create the right.
- Affirmed also in the right to contract
- Free people have the natural right to make agreements (coupons, notes, barter).
- Contracts are derivative expressions of money’s reality.
- Not limited by law
- Law can affirm, regulate, and enforce, but it cannot abolish the underlying right.
Ground-Up Maxim
The fruits of organized labor and energy constitute money — a God-given, inalienable right, affirmed but not limited by the Magna Carta; secured in the natural rights to contract and not to contract.
