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Why was President Thomas Jefferson worried about the Louisiana Purchase?

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President THOMAS JEFFERSON was unsure if the Constitution authorized the acquisition of land, but he found a way to justify the purchase. France originally claimed the Louisiana Territory in the seventeenth century.

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