President Thomas Jefferson<span> wrote this prediction in an April 1802 letter to Pierre ... to American commerce, so this transfer of authority was </span>cause<span> for concern. ... </span>France<span> could not afford to </span>send<span> forces to occupy the entire Mississippi Valley, ...</span>
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It is super important in our government that individual judges and the judiciary as a whole are impartial and independent of all external pressures and of each other so that those who appear before them and the wider public can have confidence that their cases will be decided fairly and in accordance with the law.