President Thomas Jefferson questioned the constitutional right to purchase the Louisiana Territory.
President Thomas Jefferson questioned the constitutional right to purchase the Louisiana Territory.
On the grounds that the president was not specifically given the power to purchase new lands is why the strict constructionists of the US constitution would have questioned the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. The purchase doubled the US land size at the time.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, around this time George Washington was President and Thomas Jefferson was gonna be the second President.
Both Senator Daniel Webster and President Thomas Jefferson were strict constructionists who did not like the federal government's attempts to bend the Constitution to its expedient needs.
At a constitutional convention at Montgomery, Alabama on February 9th 1861. He was inaugurated on February 18th.
IT was George Washington goodluck :)
because the constitution didn't say anything about the president buying land
Thomas Jefferson was the president during Thomas Jefferson's second term as president.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy
what are the non constitutional requirements to become president
Washington and Madison. Both Jefferson and John Adams were in Europe during the summer of 1787.