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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (1031456)	9/20/2017 4:37:28 PM
From: zzpat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576770

"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 in Article IV of the Constitution – a fact that his political opponents, the Federalists, were eager to point out to the President. Instead, Jefferson considered a constitutional amendment as 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.”" Constitution Center I should have said there's no power given to a president to buy land and expand the US even though they did. Jefferson was prepared to offer an Amendment but the people approved the deal so overwhelmingly that it was never necessary. It's not a power we gave to presidents. They created it out of thin air and everyone is okay with it.