Brian Mott wants Don Olson to explain where in the Constitution Thomas Jefferson got the right to acquire land in the Louisiana Purchase (Readers' Forum, Aug. 27). That may be a good question, but I have always wondered why we had to purchase a title from France in the first place? Didn't it really belong to someone else?

Kent Milner

Taylorsville

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