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To: muawiyah
As far as I know the buyout was tried by Monroe, Jackson and Polk

The claims didn't exist because even USA acted as if they were not valid, and even if the southern states had claims from sea to sea before the Treaty of Paris, they renounced to them in that Treaty, which fixed the borders

Article 2:

And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries, viz.; from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that nagle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands...

After that, the states would limit their claims to the Mississipi River, and that was the land they surrendered to the Federal Governement.

149 posted on 03/29/2006 4:36:08 AM PST by waiver
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To: waiver
No ~ North Carolina, for example, did not become the United States at that time.

The treaty was a scam, cleverly negotiated by Ben Franklin to screw the Europeans, which, of course, it ultimately did.

Mexico didn't sign the treaty.

150 posted on 03/29/2006 4:42:29 AM PST by muawiyah (-)
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