Throughout the decades of the 1820's and 1830's Jackson and his followers brought forth the concept that they alone upheld the Constitution and other governmental, economic, and social concepts. The Jacksonians used their popularity to stress their ideas of the U.S. Constitution, democracy, individualism, and opportunities to flourish economically. These people were certainly not the general populous by any means, moreover; they had political opponents as well. As much as the Jacksonians would like to think, they did not totally and thoroughly establish the aspects of politics they were trying to take credit for. .
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 Jackson'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.
