On August 21, 1787, the Convention considered this proposal ... “monies borrowed and debts contracted by” the old Continental Congress. Nor was this the only support.

The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...

After all, the men who gathered in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 were not there to draft a new constitution. The ...