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Debate and Diplomacy in the
Louisiana Purchase

Library.si.edu/image: Portraits of James Madison, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, Livingston; Napoleon signing Louisiana Purchase..

"The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the landmass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.."

~ Noah Feldman

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