In a moment of remarkable irony, Toby Stover vs. United States National Park Service may go down in history as the case that put America’s legal tender on trial — at the hands of its own government.

At its core, this lawsuit challenges the National Park Service’s growing refusal to accept cash — U.S. dollars — at dozens of federally funded national parks. One such site is none other than the historic home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York’s Hyde Park. There, a woman offered to pay her entry fee in U.S. currency, clearly marked “Legal Tender for All Debts, Public and Private.” Park officials refused.

Reflect for a minute on that.

The Park Service, a federal agency, is declining to accept money issued by the U.S. Treasury, backed by federal law. And in this instance, it happened at the home of FDR, the very president who, in 1935, ordered the inclusion of the Great Seal of the United States on every dollar bill to bolster........

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