The Jacksonians claimed that they were guardians of the constitution, but when this statement is examined closely, it contradicts the actions that President Jackson had taken while in office. One of such actions is the veto of the bank charter that was already established as being Constitutional because of the rulings in the McCulloch v. Maryland case. Jackson opposed the Second National Bank from the start, solely because individuals and not the nation had benefited from the bank. The individuals that invested in the bank belonged to certain social classes and became the substance of Webster’s reply to J

ackson’s veto (Doc C.) “It manifestly seeks to inflame the poor against the rich; it wantonly attacks whole classes of the people, for the purpose of turning against them the prejudices and resentments of the other classes.” Webster’s reply is relaying that the veto will divide the classes of the country, and then they will turn on each other and the classes will collapse. With the underlying power that Jackson possesses and has practiced, Webster also declared “[This message] extends the grasp of executive pretension over every power of the government….” This suggests that Webster believes that Jackson will try to overpower every political item that Jackson disagrees with.

The courts stood behind Jackson as well, through the rulings of Roger B. Taney, a Jackson nominee. Taney ruled in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (Doc. H) and stated his opinion in the matter. His bias ruled in favor of the competition within an industry, which in turn led to the stimulation of the economy.

The Jacksonians fell short of preserving what they thought were essential to the general welfare and government. They were the most successful in safeguarding the equality of economic opportunity as well as political democracy. However, their attempts of protecting individual liberty was one of the claims they had made were a half-truth. Also, t

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