This website is dedicated to Judge Roger Sherman. Judge Sherman was the only one of our founding fathers that signed all four of our important documents which are the Association of Congress 1774, The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States of America. He was also responsible and authored the famous 17 words of the United States Constitution under Article I Section 10 that mandates:

"No State shall make any Thing but gold and  silver Coin

a Tender in Payment of Debts!"

    We the People don't have our precious gold and silver Coin due to actions taken by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933. Roosevelt was influenced by the International Bankers which have throughout our history sought to enslave the people and steal our hard earned wealth.

    We the People are beneficiaries of our ancestors' estates which were valued in gold and silver Coin. And, it is up to us as those beneficiaries to lay claim to that which is rightfully ours.

   We the People of the Article I Section 10 Jural Society are dedicated to restoring an honest money system in our American states. We honor Judge Roger Sherman and cherish his book "A Caveat Against Injustice" or "An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of Exchange." 

 Please consider the following quotes written in 1982 by Frederick Tupper Saussy:

   "When Federal Reserve notes were first emitted in 1914, their stated rate was one dollar of gold or lawful money for each dollar promised. Today, a one-dollar Federal Reserve note will purchase less than 1/10th of a dollar of gold or lawful money. Roger Sherman's condemnation of Rhode Island bills applies with equal force to today's Federal Reserve notes:

   And since the Value of the Bills of Credit depend[s] wholly on the Rate at which they are stated and on the Credit of the Government by whom they are emitted and that being the only Reason and Foundation upon which they obtained their first Currency and by which the same has been upheld ever since their first being current, and therefore when the Publick Faith and Credit of such Government is violated, then the Reason upon which such Bills obtained their Currency ceases and there remains no Reason why they should be any longer current.  

   "Sherman addressed the law of the land, or custom, in A CAVEAT AGAINST INJUSTICE:

   If what is us'd as a Medium of Exchange is fluctuating in its Value it is no better then unjust Weights and Measures, both which are condemn'd by the Laws of GOD and Man, and therefore the longest and most universal Custom could never make the Use of such a Medium either lawful or reasonable.

    "The Common Law, that great river of habit flowing down from the remote English past, has always held that the only money with which debts can be paid is metals of intrinsic value. But the Common Law had been shunted off course in the American colonies by a confusion of statutes which served legislators and their supporters at the expense of the people in common. This needed correction, redirection. The widespread failure of an elastic currency made necessary the forgoing of a brand new custom (call it the resumption of an old, if you like). the habit of using material of intrinsic value -- gold and silver coin -- must be introduced into the American consciousness, must be secured as "law of the land," otherwise, Sherman wrote in CAVEAT,

   . . . instead of having our Properties defended and secured to us by the Protection of the Government under which we live, we should be always exposed to have them taken from us by Fraud at the Pleasure of other Governments, who have no Right of Jurisdiction over us.

   "Of course, Sherman might have been specifically referring to the government of Rhode Island. But would he not have condemned the assumption of jurisdiction over us by any government not created by constitution? Recall House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman's warning a decade ago that we were being ruled by another government:

   In the United States today we have in effect two governments . . . We have the duly constituted Government. . . Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by  the Constitution.

  "Doesn't Congressman Patman's testimony make it clear that the Federal Reserve banking system is our 'other Government' to which we are 'always exposed' to having our properties 'taken from us by Fraud'?

   "I am loyal to a duly constituted Government. But why should I pledge loyalty to an independent, uncontrolled, and uncoordinated government not obligated to take the Constitutional oath, a government 'who (has) no Right of Jurisdiction over us'?

   "When the Constitution was ratified on the first Wednesday in March, 1789, Roger Sherman accomplished his lifetime quest for an unalterably secure monetary system consisting of gold and silver coin. According to the 2nd Section of Article VI of the Constitution,

   This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United states, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

     "On that first Wednesday in march 1789, the monetary system advocated in A CAVEAT AGAINST INJUSTICE became a vital organ in the Supreme Law of the Land. No one thereafter could 'put himself on the country,' saying 'We've always used this stuff for money,' and hope to get a state court to ordain the use of paper money as a tender in payment of debts. Nor could a state court say 'You must pay in paper because we've always used this stuff for money.' Not even Congress could compel the states to traffic in irredeemable notes, for Sherman in convention had insisted that the prohibition be 'absolute, instead of . . . allowable with the consent of the Legislature of the U.S.

   "Our economic right to circulating gold and silver coined by congress has never been amended out of the Constitution. Our economic right not to participate in any state business conducted in a form of money prohibited by the Constitution has never been amended out of the Constitution. There are only two ways this right can be denied us: our voluntarily surrendering it, which is what most of us have done up to now; or its being taken away from us by tyrannical force applied by our fellow countrymen, in our own land, against us."

   "If the banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve! We are absolutely without a permanent monetary system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible--but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and the defect remedied soon."

        ---Robert H. Hemphill, former Credit Manager, THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA, in the Foreword to 100% MONEY, by Irving Fisher

   "If Congress won't keep its part of the constitutional bargain and coin money of gold and silver like Article I Section 8 clause 5 commands, there's no way my court can require anyone to pay fines. I'm not here to protect certain people's investments, I'm here to carry out the mandate of the U.S. and the Kansas Constitutions."

     ---The Honorable Larry Moritz, Municipal Judge, Spearville, Kansas, 1981

   Thank you Frederick Tupper Saussy for your fabulous FOREWORD written in 1982 for Roger Sherman's "A Caveat Against Injustice." 

 Roger Sherman

Born:	April 19, 1721
Birthplace:	Newton, Mass.
Education:	Informal, Cobbler, Surveyor, Lawyer. Honorary M.A. from Yale.
Work:	Admitted to Bar in New Milford Connecticut, 1754; Justice of the Peace, elected to General Assembly, representing New Milford Connecticut, 1755-58, 1760-61; Commissary for the Connecticut Troops, 1759; Elected to various Upper and Lower House offices representing New Haven, 1760s, 1770s; Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut, 1766-1789; Elected to Continental Congress, 1774-81, 1783-84; Distinguished member of the Constitutional Convention, 1785; Elected US Senator for Connecticut, 1791-93.
Died:	July 23, 1793