Civil Government Describing the Various Forms of Government Local State And
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It has been truthfully said that " An honest man is the noblest work of God. " The sense of honesty was strong in the men of 1787. The immense debt contracted by the Second Continental MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION. 249 Congress could easily have been repudiated. The noble thought, however, of taking this debt and making it com- pulsory on the new government is strikingly illustrated by the provision of this clause. The confidence thus created in the new government was a means of... strengthening it, and was one of the reasons for its successful inception. Payment of Old Debts. By the change of the form of government in 1789, it would have been a very simple matter to have thrown aside old debts. A sure sign of the weakness of a government is its inability to pay its debts. The government, under the Articles of Confederation, owed much money, and many creditors feared that they would lose all by the change. The Convention, however, had no such intention, and placed this clause in the Constitution.
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