Essay On Thomas Jefferson And The Louisiana Purchase
When the Ends Justify the Means: Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
Author(s): Barry J. Balleck
Source: Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 4, America's Bill of Rights, Market
Economies And Republican Governments (Fall, 1992), pp. 679-696
Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
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unconstitutional, illegitimate, As Secretary of State during the firstWashington administration, Jefferson was with his worst nightmare.
In early February
Hamilton
Alexander
1791,
his bill proposing charter a private laid before Congress that the national government their bank. Jefferson held that the proposed bank threatened those who toiled with confronted a
It established hands and lived by the sweat of their brows. public debt which would be carried by unborn generations but would be owned by the few, thereby establishing a bond between the national government and the rich and well-to-do. dangerous was a limited to hold that the Constitution
For Jefferson's part, he continued had no other powers than those specified and that the national government in the Constitution. in the Constitution of any since there was no mention
Thus,
not have that power. "Any other erect a bank, the national government did power to leave the door wide open
Author(s): Barry J. Balleck
Source: Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 4, America's Bill of Rights, Market
Economies And Republican Governments (Fall, 1992), pp. 679-696
Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27551031 .
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unconstitutional, illegitimate, As Secretary of State during the firstWashington administration, Jefferson was with his worst nightmare.
In early February
Hamilton
Alexander
1791,
his bill proposing charter a private laid before Congress that the national government their bank. Jefferson held that the proposed bank threatened those who toiled with confronted a
It established hands and lived by the sweat of their brows. public debt which would be carried by unborn generations but would be owned by the few, thereby establishing a bond between the national government and the rich and well-to-do. dangerous was a limited to hold that the Constitution
For Jefferson's part, he continued had no other powers than those specified and that the national government in the Constitution. in the Constitution of any since there was no mention
Thus,
not have that power. "Any other erect a bank, the national government did power to leave the door wide open