1. Andrew Jackson
Today, we identify him with this ideology, called Jacksonian Democracy. Jacksonian Democracy takes its roots from Jeffersonian Democracy - President Thomas Jefferson's idea of an agrarian society with a small, central government designed with the people's benefits in mind. Jacksonian Democracy is basically the belief in the independence and responsibility of man. ... The Jacksonians, as the outsiders called them, and as they probably called themselves, feared government involvement in the economy, declaring that it gave way to special interests and monopolies. ...
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