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Consumers would have a tendency to become more influential in price changes than consumers in a perfectly competitive market. In addition, a perfectly competitive market is usually characterised by having similar products being sold by different firms and consumers have more access to product information.
As seems to happen so often in politics, the Federalists opposed the Louisiana Purchase not on principled grounds but because they thought it would hurt them politically. They claimed to oppose the Purchase because it was unconstitutional.
