Jackson
In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States. The Jacksonian Democracy, or New Democracy, was thus created. The philosophy of this new form of democracy was that whatever governing was to be done was to be done directly by the people. The Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the protectors of the Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. However, as shown through the National Bank, the Nullification Crisis, and the Native Americans' Trail of Tears, the Jacksonian Democrats achieved their democracy by engaging in events which were the opposite of what they stood for and by trampling over the system of checks and balances implied in the Constitution. In 1832, Andrew Jackson stated that economic equality was his reasoning behind the veto for the recharter of the United States National Bank. This ve
In the Nullification Crisis, Jackson threatened to use force against the nullifiers. He also issued a proclamation that prohibited South Carolina from being able to nullify federal tariffs. By doing this, Jackson strongly went against state rights. The Acts and Resolutions of South Carolina (Doc. F) are examples of declarations for state rights that Jackson would have opposed. This shows how Jackson expanded his powers of presidency beyond the ones that were intended for him according to the Constitution. to created the "Bank War." As shown in Jackson's veto message (Doc. B), Jackson claimed that by vetoing the bill to recharter the bank, he was looking after the economic equality of all United States citizens. Jackson believed that the bank was monopolistic, therefore unconstitutional, even though the bank was declared constitutional in the Supreme Court ruling of the McC
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