All i know is that he created the light bulb
This is false. Like most European countries, France was most interested in the import and trade of things like tobacco and sugar.
The one that re-established the silver dollar as a form of currency and committed the u.S government tot he purchase of a certain amount of silver each month for coinage is : A. Bland-Allison Act
The act was enacted in 1878 by united states congress to put circulation to the silver dollars
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They felt that it wouldn't protect individual rights and that it threatened liberty.