Our Founding Fathers understood that honest money is the foundation of a prosperous nation. And while we no longer have this foundation, it can be re-established. It must. Our children's and grandchildren's future depends on it.

That is why we are here.

Take a few minutes to learn about the Sound Money Center. Then, discover the truth about honest money by taking our Informed Citizens course. Join the growing number of Americans who are working to rebuild our nation's monetary system on a foundation based on a fundamental American value - honesty.

The Utah Monetary Declaration

WHEREAS, the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness require for their full enjoyment the indispensable right to honorably acquire, use, hold and transfer property;

WHEREAS, money, a fundamental form of property, serving as a medium of exchange, a unit of measure, and a store of value, enables individuals to freely and collectively exercise their inherent rights within society;

WHEREAS, natural money, most commonly precious metal coin, by virtue of its intrinsic qualities of uniformity, divisibility, durability, portability, and scarcity, reliably retains its value over time, irrespective of any governmental declaration to require or prohibit its use;

WHEREAS, sound money, in whatever form, benefits society by maintaining stable purchasing power and circulating on a voluntary and unencumbered basis, thereby promoting prosperity and unity within any community upholding it;

WHEREAS, history attests that monopolistic monetary systems tend toward detrimental manipulations of the supply, composition and nature of money, resulting in lost purchasing power, inequitable wealth redistributions, misallocation of productive resources and chronic unemployment, essentially destroying life, liberty, property and happiness;

WHEREAS, for the equal protection and general welfare of all people, the open and unrestricted circulation of complementary and competing currencies fosters an effective check and balance against monopolistic monetary manipulations; and

WHEREAS, the right to choose constitutes the chief cornerstone of a free market and of a unified, prosperous and free society;

NOW THEREFORE, we the undersigned hereby declare and affirm that:

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