Ed Price | |
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Member of the Louisiana State Senate from the 2nd district | |
Assumed office June 16, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Troy E. Brown |
Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 58th district | |
In office January 2012 – May 2017 | |
Preceded by | Elton M. Aubert |
Succeeded by | Ken Brass |
Personal details | |
Born | Edward Joseph Price |
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | Grambling State University |
Edward J. Price[1] is an American politician.[2] He served as a Democratic member for the 58th district of the Louisiana House of Representatives,[3] and is currently a member for the 2nd district of the Louisiana State Senate.[4]
Price attended Grambling State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975.[3] In 2012, he was elected for the 58th district of the Louisiana House of Representatives, succeeding Elton M. Aubert. In 2017, he was succeeded by Ken Brass and elected to the Louisiana State Senate, succeeding Troy E. Brown for the 2nd district.[4] He assumed his office on June 16, 2017.[4]
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The historical audacity of the Louisiana Purchase - Judy Walton
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Louisiana: A History Pt. 2
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Have you heard the one about Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Territory? Thomas Jefferson, author of The Declaration of Independence, was not a fan of the new constitution presented in 1787. He was very worried that The Constitution gave too much power to the new, national government, and not enough power to the states, an issue known as "big government". Jefferson only reluctantly agreed to support it when his friend, James Madison, promised to propose a bill of rights after it was ratified. But Jefferson's fears about big government did not go away. For example, Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, proposed a national bank in 1790, and Jefferson knew there was no provision in The Constitution to permit such a thing. Hamilton claimed some sort of implied powers mumbo-jumbo. Sure, it wasn't written in The Constitution, but The Constitution implied that it could be done. But, Jefferson wasn't buying it. Nonetheless, the bank was established by Hamilton and President Washington. When Jefferson was sworn in as President in 1801, he pledged to reduce the size and scope of the national government. But, of course, things didn't go exactly as he had planned. Spain secretly transferred the Louisiana Territory to France right beneath Jefferson's nose. When Congress found out, they quickly began discussions with France to buy a piece of the territory along the Mississippi River for about $2 million. But, there was one little problem: Jefferson knew there was no provision in The Constitution to buy foreign territory. So what was a strict constructionist to do? First, he tried to get an amendment to The Constitution passed that would expressly permit the purchase, but Congress wasn't willing to do it. Then, without permission, the U.S. negotiators in France cut a deal for all of the territory for a cool $15 million dollars. That new land doubled the size of the nation! Now Jefferson was really stuck. He knew that the territory would be a great acquisition for the country, providing lots of new land for farmers and other settlers, but how could he constitutionally justify it? In the end, Jefferson turned to the argument used by his old foe Alexander Hamilton. He claimed that the power to purchase the territory is implied in The Constitution's treaty-making power. This was the exact argument that he had mocked openly a decade before, so it must have crushed his pride to have to use it. But more importantly, he may have committed the biggest big government play ever! How ironic is it that one of the biggest opponents of big government doubled the size of the young country and did so while openly questioning its constitutionality? At $15 million, which is about three cents an acre, it has been called by many the greatest real estate deal in the history of the United States.
References
- ^ "State Senator | Edward J. "Ed" Price | Democrat District 2". senate.la.gov. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
- ^ Hasselle, Della (October 12, 2019). "Sen. Ed Price keeps seat against former Sen. Troy Brown for Senate District 2". The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
- ^ a b "House Member Page". Louisiana House of Representatives. Archived from the original on April 19, 2015. Retrieved May 23, 2022 – via Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b c "Ed Price". Ballotpedia. Retrieved May 23, 2022.