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Nathan K. Cummings, The Counterfeit Buck Stops Here: National Security Issues in the Redesign of U.S. Currency, 8 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 539 (1999).
Explaining that counterfeiting was a historically treasonous crime but that the Framers consciously removed it from the ambit of treason in the Constitution.
Arguing that the Counterfeiting Clause is limited in scope in comparison to the Piracies Clause, owing to Congress’s capacity to “define and punish piracy and offenses against the law of nations.”
Lewis D. Solomon, Local Currency: A Legal and Policy Analysis, 5 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 59 (1996).
Arguing that the Counterfeiting Clause reinforces the Framers’ intent to limit “Money” to coin.
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