Permanent Strength Amendment

1. Amendment to Article I section 8. Congress shall make no law regulating the value of money, or of foreign coin.

2. Amendment to Article I section 8, definition of money. Congress shall coin money, only in the form of metal coins and bars. Congress shall cause to be made no such coin or bar, but that shall contain, for every dollar of value, one one-thousandth troy ounce pure gold and one one-hundredth troy ounce pure silver, and shall be stamped with its value as so defined.

3. Amendment to Article I section 8, definition of weights and measures. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the troy ounce shall be equal in mass to 1560912686214199606635279 atoms of Carbon-12.

4. Amendment to Article I section 10, payment of debts. Neither the United States, nor any State, shall accept as payment upon a debt, nor issue in payment of its debts, any thing other than such money as has been coined by Congress in accordance with this article. Notwithstanding any exchange of demand drafts, notes, or bills to evidence payment of such debts, no debt shall be deemed satisfied, but by physical delivery of money to the creditor or, at the creditor's sole option, to the creditor's agent. Neither the United States, nor any State, shall make any thing a tender in payment of debts, except such money as has been coined by Congress in accordance with this article.

5. Full reserve banking. No United States bank, nor any State, corporation, or person subject to the control of the United States, shall issue, nor cause to be issued, demand drafts, nor any other demand claim, against itself, but for which it shall retain at all times in its physical control sufficient money to honor at full face value.

6. Federal Reserve Bank, bankruptcy and abolition. The Federal Reserve Bank shall be deemed bankrupt, and the United States shall be its receiver. All property of the Federal Reserve Bank, held by it on 21st September 2008, or acquired by it thereafter, shall upon the ratification of this article become the property of the United States, notwithstanding any intervening disposal of such property by the Federal Reserve Bank. All debt obligations of the United States held by the Federal Reserve Bank shall be cancelled. The Federal Reserve Bank shall cease operating upon ratification of this article.

7. Federal Reserve Bank, assumption of obligations, satisfaction of claims. The United States shall satisfy in part all legitimate demand claims, issued not later than 21st September 2008, by and against the Federal Reserve Bank, and presented to the United States Treasury not more than one year after this article shall be ratified, by delivering to the bearers money coined by Congress in accordance with this article, the amount of which shall not be less than the bearer's pro rata share of the then-current fair market value of the Federal Reserve Bank's net assets rightfully held by it at the close of business on 21st September 2008. Notwithstanding any law, or contract, all claimants upon the Federal Reserve Bank shall be of the same class, and their claims shall have equal preference and precedence. Congress shall make no law conveying money, in amount exceeding the requirement of this clause, to satisfy a claim upon the Federal Reserve Bank, but that shall also convey money equally, on a pro rata basis, to all other claimants.

8. Outstanding debt, adjustment thereof. All debt of the United States outstanding on the date of this article's ratification shall be considered to be denominated in obligations of the Federal Reserve Bank. Its face value, and all current and future principal and interest payments due thereon, shall be adjusted by the same fraction by which other such claims are satisfied in accordance with clause seven.

9. Restrictions on future amendment, amendment to article V. Notwithstanding any provision of article V, no provision of this article shall be altered by any subsequent amendment, but with the direct consent of all persons, who at that time shall have attained to twenty years of age; and who shall be United States citizens, or should have been entitled to United States citizenship, had all United States laws in effect on 21st September 2008 remained in effect to that time.

10. Prohibition of hindrance, punishment thereof. Except as provided in clause nine, neither this article, nor any clause hereof, shall be altered, suspended, or cancelled by any act or order. Any person, who attempts such act, shall commit an act of Aggravated Treason against the United States, and shall be put to death, the body to be hanged in chains in a public place for a period of not less than thirty days thereafter, then taken down and burned, the ashes to be discharged into a suitable sewer.