President Jefferson promoted policies for easy purchase of land west of the Appalachian Mountains, sponsored the Lewis and Clark
expedition, and asserted a lot of executive power in order to purchase the Louisiana Territory from the French. How did a president who came into office to curb federal government and promote simplicity and frugality justify this expansion of executive power, especially in the face of bitter New England opposition, and why did he feel westward expansion was so important to the future of the new nation?
President Jefferson knew that taking the territory of the west after the purchase of Lussian could have favorable economic and geopolitical consequences for the new nation, could have a route to the northwest for trade, curb France's ambition to explore this territory with the argument of some scientific expedition and curb the growth of the USA, in turn having a country with salinity to the Atlantic and Pacific would achieve a prosperous nation, On expanding the executive power, it was clear that if it could have a strong ejective government, it could generate more support for the federal states, indicating everything through the constitution.
