... Scotch-Irish family in western North Carolina, therefore establishing himself as a member of the back country elite, like many common men of America. Polk was raised in an atmosphere of strict Presbyterianism, from which he derived a rigid self-discipline that would govern his actions to the end of his life. Like Jackson, James K. Polk held the Jacksonian concept of the presidency ... determined to re-establish the program and policies of Old Hickory that had suffered erosion under the Whigs following the 1840 election. Like his mentor, Polk championed states rights and a strict interpr...

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... his wishes Jackson hired Roger B. Tany, a good friend, who obediently placed federal funds in state banks (pet banks) and not the Bank of the United States. Jackson's forceful attitude and strict interpretation of the Constitution won him allies in the political world and it also won him many enemies. There has never been an issue on which every man in the world ... ...

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