john taylor

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - In 1803, in the United States Senate, John Taylor of Caroline presented the case on behalf of Jefferson for why Jefferson acted totally constitutionally when he made the Louisiana Purchase.  One of the other things that Timothy Pickering, a senator from Taxachusetts at the time, said that Jefferson had erred in doing was that those people in Louisiana became citizens.  It’s in […]