His decision to buy the land went against his own belief to strictly follow the words of the Constitution.
<span>The Constitution gave no guidance about acquiring lands from other countries. Jefferson was going out on a limb with the Louisiana Purchase.</span>
They were located in the great plains
They wanted Panama to become independent from Colombia so they could build the Panama Canal.
The Flexible response was a policy implemented by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in order to substitute the New Look and the massive retaliation policy that Dwight Eisenhower's had introduced, which consisted on responding using a greater force in case of an attack, and such force involved nuclear weapons.
On the other hand, the flexible response policy aknowledges the Mutual assured destruction if nuclear weapons are involved, as the enemy with shoot back too. It aimed to provide a manner of responding to agression across the spectrum of war but without the employment of nuclear weapons.
