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why did President Thomas Jefferson, specifically, have a legal problem with the concept of the Louisiana Purchase?

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— The ability to buy property from foreign governments was not among these powers listed the Constitution – a fact that his political opponents, the Federalists, were eager to point out to the President. Instead, Jefferson considered a constitutional amendment the only way to conclude the deal with France
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I'm guessing because the land was mostly unexplored

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