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Thomas Jefferson was committed to a strict interpretation of the Constitution, and there was no clause in the Constitution that stated that a president could buy foreign land. He put his ideology aside, submitted purchase agreement to the Senate, said the lands could be added to the US as an application of the president's power to make treaties -- Frederalists in the Senate criticized purchase; Democratic-Republican majority in the Senate ratified the purchase
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