National obligations after revolution

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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · public finance and debt · militia governance · liquidation of claims · federal debt payment · delegated military authority · constitutional drafting · conquest, plunder, and captives

Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1)

The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 2 primary

United States. Constitutional Convention · 1787-07-19 to 1787-09-17 (convention debates recorded; excerpts reflect entries in the official journal as presented here)
Act to which the States by their Legislatures, make themselves parties, becomes a compact from which no one of the parties can recede of itself. > act of the ordinary legislatures to be equally authentic, (47/65)

The Convention debates clauses about fulfilling congressional engagements and national debts, then turns to militia matters, including striking language about training authority and adjourning.

M^r Gov^r Morris moved by way of amendment to substitute--"The Legislature *shall* discharge the debts & fulfil the engagements of the U. States." It was moved to vary the amendment by striking out "discharge the debts" & to insert "liquidate the claims," which being negatived, The amendment moved by M^r Gov^r Morris was agreed to all the States being in the affirmative. It was moved & 2^{ded} to strike the follow…