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The Law That Never Mattered: 400 Years of Monetary Control
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ISBN13: 9798187698462
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Every schoolchild is taught that laws are made by legislatures, that constitutions are supreme, and that power belongs to the people. This book asks a harder question: has that ever actually been true, once you look at who controls a nation's money? Tracing four centuries of history - from the Bank of England's founding through the Federal Reserve's creation on Jekyll Island, from colonial currency boards through Bretton Woods, from military dictatorships in Chile and Argentina through self-declared Islamic republics in Iran and Pakistan - this book places every major political system side by side and asks the same question of each: no matter what the constitution says, no matter what the ideology proclaims, who actually controls the creation of money, and does that control ever answer to the law? The evidence assembled here spans capitalist democracies, communist states, dictatorships, and nations founded explicitly on Islamic law. In every single case, centralized monetary authority has proven more durable, and less accountable, than the formal law surrounding it. The final chapters turn to the Qur'an - not as a footnote, but as the one framework that proposes removing the lever of centralized monetary control entirely, through Bayt al-Mal, zakat, waqf, and qard hasan, rather than negotiating over who holds it.
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