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    The crown may legitimately alter the denomination of mone... — Carmelics
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    The crown may legitimately alter the denomination of money to serve the common good

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    • 1.Money is merely a unit of measure set by men, not a divinely fixed quantity
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    • 2.Human institutions may be adjusted by legitimate authority when the common good requires it
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    • 1.Money derives its legitimacy from the consent of those who use it in exchange, not from sovereign decree alone.
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    • 2.Oresme argued in De Moneta (1355) that coinage belongs to the community, making unilateral royal alteration a form of theft.
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    • 3.An act that appropriates private wealth without compensation cannot be justified merely by labeling it a public benefit.
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    • 1.Altering monetary denomination without corresponding adjustment in obligations transfers real wealth from creditors to debtors by sovereign fiat.
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    • 2.Locke held in Some Considerations (1692) that property rights precede and constrain legitimate governmental authority.
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    • 3.A power that systematically redistributes existing property under the guise of monetary policy violates the foundational terms of the social contract.
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    Aquinas, Jean Buridan, and Nicole Oresme, among others of the late medieval period, assimilated Aristotelian economic thought to Biblical teachings and, by and large, cast commercial activities in a negative light (Jones 1989; Langholm 1998). To buy low and sell high was to engage in deception and hence to violate the Golden Rule. To practice usury contravened the Biblical dictum, to “lend, expecting nothing in return” (Luke 6:35). The late medieval philosophers dug more deeply into the evolving
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