"How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson?".
Andrew Jackson's belief in Democracy was that all branches and agencies of the government must listen to and follow the wishes of the people. He wanted to change the way the country had been run before he took charge. He didn't think that the people were really getting there fair say on things. Andrew Jackson was very Democratic because he wanted the people to have more say and power in the government, he wanted to extend our boundaries so that people could move more out west, and he wanted the national bank to be ran differently than it was.
Andrew Jackson thought that our country wasn't Democratic enough so when he campaigned he told the people that he will listen to them and do there will. He believed that the people in office before him did a terrible job of this. In the year 1816, the people chose presidential electors by legislature, and by the year 1832, most of the presidential electors were chose by the people except in one state only which was South Carolina. Then again in 1836, the presidential electors were chose by the people in all but one state which was once again South Carolina. (Document 1.) Then on December 8, 1829, in a letter to congress Jackson said, "In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more right to (government jobs) than another." This shows that he believes that any citizen of the country has a right to be in the government.
The second reason that Andrew Jackson was Democratic was that he wanted to extend our country for the people. He wanted the Indians to move out west to what is now Oklahoma so more Americans could move off of the east coast and develop our country more. A lot of people today say that this was a terrible dictator thing to do, but really it wasn't he told them that they could stay in the condition that they obeyed our laws. (Document 8.) He also paid the Indians who decided to go to Oklahoma.
