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Why did thomas jefferson have concerns about the constitutionality of the louisiana purchase?

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The Treaty of San Ildefonso was an agreement between France and Spain where Spain gave back the colonial territory of Louisiana to France. It gave the French most of the Missisipi river, and new Orleans, which denied the U.S The Gulf of Mexico. I hope I could help! :D
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