Democratic (constitutionalist) President Polk turns the presidency over to Whig (nationalist) Major General Zachary Taylor, of the Army of the united States.  Polk is giving to Taylor a federal debt that has expanded from 16,000,000 to 63,000,000 Dollars, going from 1 to 3% of the Gross National Product, and from 80 Cents to 2.80 Dollars per person.

       NOTE: The Union is still paying for the Panic of 1837 and now the Mexican-American War through lawful Indirect (tariffs and excise) taxes placed upon manufactured goods.

       [added 2/21/2021]

Subsequent Events:

Authority:

Article II, Section 1 [Clause 8]
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states

References:

Government – Historical Debt Outstanding – Annual 1790 – 1849
www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo1.htm

List of Presidents of the United states – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

Measuring Worth – GDP result.
www.measuringworth.com/datasets/usgdp/result.php

Bureau of Economic Analysis is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
www.bea.gov/national/index.html#gdp

Leviathan on the Right (How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution) | Strike-The-Root: A Journal Of Liberty
www.strike-the-root.com/71/lfb/lfb1.html

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,161,621,015,445

Source