Section 10: No state shall . . . coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver coin tender in payment of debt.”
Then, Constitutionally, there could be no state bank chartered. Congressman Wright Patman has said:
“The Government of the United States, under the Constitution, has the power, and it is the duty of the Government, to CREATE ALL MONEY. . . . This being true, why should Congress sit idly by and allow the (private) banks to expand $20 to $1, or even $50 to $1, in order to finance the war and the other costs of Government when it is nothing more nor less than Congress permitting the credit of this Nation to be farmed out for the selfish benefit of private banking corporations? The Treasury issues both money and bonds. Under the present system it sells (deposits) the bonds to a (the) bank(s) that creates money (bank deposits)! Then, if the bank needs the actual money, the actual printed greenbacks (or coins) to pay the depositors, the Treasury will furnish that money to pay the depositors. In that way Congress farms out the use of the government’s (nation’s) credit absolutely free.
“It is the duty of Congress to issue — coin or create-money and regulate its value under the Constitution. This great privilege has been farmed out free to the privately owned banks by Congress. This privilege is worth billions of dollars a year to those exercising it under laws passed by Congress.
“The United States Treasury prints and issues both the interest-bearing bonds and the money (bills and coins) which is another form of Government obligation, not interest-bearing.