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in a gold standard the debt is payed with lawful money
in a fiat system the debt is payed(discharged) with legal tender, a legal fiction
the state inc. doesn't have jurisdiction over lawful money, only over that wich it creates
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Ok, so even though gold was legally recognized as money, because it had been used as lawful money, it doesn't become legal tender.
Is that the distinction you're getting at?
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they had to make the "institution of legal tender" for to remove lawful money from the system
this at least what I learned, if I'm wrong, I will happily adjust
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What part of that was missing from gold during the gold standard era?
Is it just this particular use of "discharge" that your including in the definition?
That's the part I don't think is part of the definition though.