How thomas jefferson came to approve the louisiana purchase

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"The issue, then, is not whether Jefferson's policies toward Louisiana were right or wrong but rather how he managed to implement decisions that defied in so many ways his long- standing commitment to limitations on executive power and the near-sacred character of republican principles.....Jefferson was not simply seized by power-hungry impulses once he assumed the presidency, since in a broad range of other policy areas he exhibited considerable discipline over the executive branch and habitual deference to the Congress;...he did not suddenly discover a pragmatic streak in his political philosophy,...he clung tenaciously to Jeffersonian principles despite massive evidence that they were at odds with reality...The answer would seem to be the special, indeed almost mystical place the West had in his thinking...For Jefferson more than any other major figure in the revolutionary generation, the West was America's future.?

What was his historical interpretation of how thomas jefferson came to approve the Louisiana purchase?

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