Federal Reserve Act

The Federal Reserve Act

  • Introduced in the House as H.R. 7837 by Carter Glass(D-VAon August 29, 1913
  • Committee consideration by House BankingSenate Banking 
  • Passed the House on September 18, 1913 (287–85, 5 Present)
  • Passed the Senate on December 18, 1913 (54–34)
  • Reported by the joint conference committee on December 22, 1913
  •  agreed to by the House on December 22, 1913 (298–60) 
  • and by the Senate onDecember 23, 1913 (43–25)
  • Signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913

According to the Constitution, the following powers were granted exclusively to Congress in Artucke I Section 8

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;


Federal Reserve
  habeen given a power reserved to the Congress and a Constitutonal Amendment would be required to make the establishment of the Federal Reserve  a lawful entity

 

 

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