Why do you think president jefferson who believed in a strict interpretation of the constitution decided that the president had the power to buy land when that was not mentioned in the constitution?

Thomas Jefferson had always feared the costs of loose construction of the powers delegated to the national government in the Constitution, and the Constitution was ... The Louisiana Purchase Treatywould not be final until it was ratified by the Senate, funded by the House of Representatives, and signed by the President.

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