1. Two Major Constitutional Challenges and Lessons
... of the country, but despite what this purchase meant to the future of the United States many people, opposed it for various reasons. Federalists were angered because, "[Anti-Federalists] had passionately denounced the argument of Alexander Hamilton and other Federalists that there were implied powers in the Constitution that entitled the government to take action in areas not covered in the text of ... the national charter, (Thomas Fleming, The Louisiana Purchase). Some even went as far as to call President Jefferson a hypocrite for working around The Constitution. Other Federalists opp...
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