The Louisiana Purchase posed several significant moral dilemmas for President Thomas Jefferson, but violating his strictly constructionist view of the Constitution was one of many dilemmas faced during the Purchased from France on numerous occasions. Jefferson believed that if a power could not be found in the Constitution it did not exist and reverted to the interest of the states. According to the Constitution, there is no power that gives the President to make land investments or to expend funds. President Jefferson also disagreed with Alexander Hamilton's loose interpretation of the presidential powers contained in the Constitution and the creation of the National Bank. American farmers and merchants used the port of New Orleans to ship their products. The problem was that, originally, the House had authorized Jefferson to spend only two million dollars "to secure the waterway in the Gulf of Mexico", Congress would have to raise funds to finance the purchase (Nesmith). As I stated in the introduction, there was no power vested in the President to make investments in land, and Jefferson had a strictly constructionist view of the Constitution he followed. According to “The White House Historical Association,” Jefferson “did not believe that the president had the right to increase national dominion by treaty of purchase” and that the United States would incorporate the residents of Louisiana into the Union, and would have the right of the same rights and privileges as other American citizens. “Jefferson wondered whether he and Congress had the power to bring into the nation whole groups of people who were outside its original bounds” (http://www.whitehousehistory.org). Therefore, the moral dilemma that Jefferson faced here was to set aside his strict constructionist principles of the Constitution, because authorization for this type of transaction was not expressly listed in the Constitution. Of course, a constitutional amendment would have taken too long, and the French might have withdrawn the offer at the moment when Jefferson deemed the creation of the National Bank unconstitutional. In the article “Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase” the author argues: “Although a National Bank was not expressly mentioned in the Constitution, Hamilton believed that the Elastic Clause (Art I., Sec. 8, Clause 18) gave the government the power of power to create such an organism. Jefferson did not entirely agree. Believes that all powers vested in the national government are enumerated. If they were not expressly mentioned in the Constitution then they were reserved to the States” (http://americanhistory.about.com). But under Hamilton's National Bank, the United States had developed the financial credit necessary to receive a loan large enough for the Louisiana Purchase. That said, I'm sure anyone can understand why this would cause a problem for Jefferson if he found the creation of the National Bank to be unconstitutional. Jefferson believed that the Constitution should be interpreted narrowly and that the government should act within its established boundaries. Jefferson also favored limited government and believed that congress should be limited to the powers listed in the Constitution. The main difference between Jefferson and Hamilton regarding executive power lies in Jefferson's belief in the body politic represented by the executive branch.