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Many Including Jefferson (who is also my favorite President) felt that the Louisiana Purchase was unconstitutional without an amendment, but the deal was too good to pass up so he took a gamble. In essence he used the end justifies the means which I don't think is in the Constitution. However I would defer to Diane's more informed knowledge on the subject.
"Jefferson took a strict, literal view of constitutional powers, meaning that specific powers reserved for the President and Executive Branch needed to be spelled out in the Constitution. 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. “The General Government has no powers but such as the Constitution gives it,” he wrote to John Dickinson in 1803. “It has not given it power of holding foreign territory, and still less of incorporating it into the Union. An amendment of the Constitution seems necessary for this.” However, Jefferson had no intention of losing the deal with France. “In the meantime we must ratify and pay our money, as we have treated, for a thing beyond the Constitution, and rely on the nation to sanction an act done for its great good, without its previous authority,” he told Dickinson." constitutioncenter.org
Commented: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 1:05 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Yeah, a little bit. How about James Madison? He was one of key authors of the Constitution.
And Thomas Jefferson was indeed a man of constitutional principal; Jefferson is Diane's favorite Founding Father.
Commented: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 8:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With the possible exception of George Washington, all presidents after him look upon the constitution as nothing more than a temporary Road Work Ahead sign in the way to accomplish their goals.
Does that make me a cynic? I SUPPOSE SO. 
Commented: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 12:56 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Even though Lincoln was the top Yankee of all time, and did demolish the Constitution for most of his presidency, he say some remarkably memorable stuff, with the Gettysburg Address a very rich poem of extreme purpose.
Commented: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 12:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As old Abe Lincoln said: "There's a sucker born ever minute!"
Once Brainy Quotes does a Web crawl this quote will appear in their list of Brainy Quotes. I know that because there must have been someone who followed old Abe around and wrote everything he said knowing that sooner or later there would be a search engine that they could sell it to. www.brainyquote.com
Commented: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 9:36 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I like that process of accountability.
Also, one could just change a few words or try hard to make it better, which almost never works, and then claim it as your own. It must work, because Joe Biden often does not go to that much trouble, and he is running for president right now.
Commented: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 7:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I usually try to credit Quotes to the author if I know who it is. Unless it is a particularly funny or profound quote, then I take credit or say that's what my father always said. You know, just keep it in the family.
Commented: Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 @ 11:09 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I enjoy you thoughts put to words. They always make me laugh.
When people quote Senator Moynihan's words often, but they rarely attribute that quote to him. The late Democrat Senator would probably never make it through a Democratic Socialist primary now, especially one held in New York. Thanks for the submission B.T. It really is a "breath of fresh air". I really couldn't tell you whose words started that one.
Commented: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 1:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I admit that sometimes, I may be a bit too quick to form an opinion, but generally I give people leeway on what they think.
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Commented: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 12:38 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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"When Daniel Patrick Moynihan said "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts," he probably had no idea how wrong he was." - Classic Bobby Tony
"Who is that masked man?"
Commented: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 11:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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