The Federalists strongly opposed the purchase, favoring close relations with Britain over closer ties to Napoleon, believing the purchase to be unconstitutional, and concerned that the U.S. had paid a large sum of money just to declare war on Spain.
Federalists
The Louisiana Purchase
Guyon Purchas was born in 1862.
Guyon Purchas died in 1940.
Samuel Purchas died in 1626.
John Purchas was born in 1823.
John Purchas died in 1872.
The Louisiana Perchase
louisiana purchase.
There was nothing in the constitution about buying land.
Samuel Purchas has written: 'Purchas his pilgrimage, or, Relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation unto present' 'Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes'
The constitution didn’t give rules about the purchasing of land.