Federalists
There was nothing in the constitution about buying land.
The Louisiana Purchase was done by Thomas Jefferson who was a Democrat-Republican. The Federalist Party thus opposed the move.
They sought stronger ties with Great Britain and not with France.
The correct spelling is Louisiana Purchase (1803).
The Louisiana Purchase
Federalists
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There was nothing in the constitution about buying land.
The Louisiana Purchase was done by Thomas Jefferson who was a Democrat-Republican. The Federalist Party thus opposed the move.
The constitution didn’t give rules about the purchasing of land.
He agreed to the Louisiana Purchase through loose interpretation of the Constitution, which was actually a characteristic of the Federalists, not the Republicans. The Louisiana Purchase also diminished the power of state governments, which was against the Republican view of state's rights.
Federalists, despite being the party that supported a strong central government, opposed the Louisiana Purchase. It was opposed mostly because President Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican who supported a strict, or narrow, view of the Constitution, went against his principles of small government and bought the territory anyway. The Federalists used this as fuel against Jefferson and the other Democratic-Republicans in an era where party politics sharply divided the country.
They sought stronger ties with Great Britain and not with France.
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.
The correct spelling is Louisiana Purchase (1803).
The Louisiana Purchase