Jackson, like most of his leading antagonists, was in fact a wealthy man of conservative social beliefs. In his many volumes of correspondence he rarely referred to labor. As a lawyer and man of affairs in Tennessee prior to his accession to the presidency, he aligned himself not with have-nots but with the influential, not with the debtor but with the creditor. His reputation was created largely by astute men who propagated the belief that his party was the people's party and that the policies of his administrations were in the popular interest. Savage attacks on those policies by some wealthy critics only fortified the belief that the Jacksonian movement was radical as well as democratic.

Now that we've taken a look at both sides of democracy, we can now compare and contrast. If compared to today's standards, the Jeffersonian democracy is most like today's Republican the Jeffersonian democracy wanted to limit the powers of government and to give people power and trust. The Jacksonian democracy was for more government power and believed more in d

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