Abstract
The thesis titled “The Moral Dilemma Thomas Jefferson Faced over the Purchase of Louisiana from France” includes such parts as the expanded introduction, the main body and the conclusion. The introduction tells about the fact that the Louisiana Purchase became the reason for the emergence of a string of moral dilemmas for Thomas Jefferson. Among these dilemmas were two main ones that lied in the discrepancy between Jefferson’s strict constructionist ideas on the occasion of Constitution which considered the acquisition of the territory as an unconstitutional process and, the strong disputes between supporters of Jefferson’s policy and Continue reading...