The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803 for all of the following reasons, except A. to provide access to the Atlantic Ocean

B. to develop land for the growing American population

C. to strengthen economic prosperity

D. to provide territory for relocating American Indian tribes

deists, human beings can know god only via reason and the observation of nature, but not by revelation or by supernatural manifestations (such as miracles

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

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