Andrew Jackson: Was He a Tyrant?

[Icefrisco]

Was he? I am completely ashamed that he was an American. Its almost like he tried to destroy America......

[Vladimir Lenin]

No he did'nt try to destroy America...

What he tried to do was act in the Nation's best intrest, in horribly immoral ways. You can't just step on a Supreme Court decision.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Nope not at all yes he did prevent South Carolina from rightfully suceeding because it didn't like the increace in tarrifs by a small amount, and he told the supreme court to **** itself when it told him ot let the Cherokee be, but he got rid of the Evil National Bank so he was not a tyrant I mean that bank was destroying America!

[Vladimir Lenin]

Nope not at all yes he did prevent South Carolina from rightfully suceeding because it didn't like the increace in tarrifs by a small amount, and he told the supreme court to **** itself when it told him ot let the Cherokee be, but he got rid of the Evil National Bank so he was not a tyrant I mean that bank was destroying America!

I hope your being sarcastic about the National Bank......

[Sétanta]

Nope not at all yes he did prevent South Carolina from rightfully suceeding because it didn't like the increace in tarrifs by a small amount, and he told the supreme court to **** itself when it told him ot let the Cherokee be, but he got rid of the Evil National Bank so he was not a tyrant I mean that bank was destroying America!

Well we don't want those damn hicks to succeed now do we.

Jackson was an okay President. He trashed the Supreme Court, but it was in the countries best interest. Rather like FDR, only what he did wasn't in the best interests.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Nope it was meant to turn AMerica into a dictatorship.

[El Brujo]

He was something of tyrant but, as usual in American politics, the alternative was worse.

[Vladimir Lenin]

Nope it was meant to turn AMerica into a dictatorship.

I consider Jackson the first American Socialist. "The Bank, always a privately owned institution." Wikipedia Page on the Second National Bank of the United States

[Kiljan Arslan]

What was the alternative?

[El Brujo]

The Whigs and their pet bank.

[Kiljan Arslan]

The Whigs and their pet bank.

The whigs didn't exist until 1833, AFTER Jackson was elected.

[El Brujo]

Being the alternative to Jackson was their whole reason for existing.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Well it seems you should learn your history before you post.


BTW So telling the Supreme court to **** off is going by the constitution?

[El Brujo]

They came into being for the express purpose of opposing Jackson's policies, who else exactly do you think opposed him?

[Kiljan Arslan]

So if a president wanted he could round up 40,000 peolpe and force them from where they lived and if the supreme court told him to stop he could just ignore them please tell me where in the constutution it says that. Also Jackson unlike lincoln never was really faced with the dinsinergation of his nation.

[El Brujo]

So if a president wanted he could round up 40,000 peolpe and force them from where they lived and if the supreme court told him to stop he could just ignore them please tell me where in the constutution it says that. Also Jackson unlike lincoln never was really faced with the dinsinergation of his nation.

Who is this aimed at? I've already said he was a tyrant.

[Kiljan Arslan]

You you seem to think that Jackson a man who amongst other things circumvented the constitution and who alsoinvaded a state that was going to seceed is better than lincoln who was actually faced with disinergration of the USA. YOu seem to think that the outcome if Jackson had never been elected would have been terrible but the outcome if Lincoln had let the south go and the Union disinigrate would have been alright.

[El Brujo]

You you seem to think that Jackson a man who amongst other things circumvented the constitution and who alsoinvaded a state that was going to seceed is better than lincoln who was actually faced with disinergration of the USA. YOu seem to think that the outcome if Jackson had never been elected would have been terrible but the outcome if Lincoln had let the south go and the Union disinigrate would have been alright.

Jackson brought politics closer to the people and prevented a Federalist-style scheme to centralize government power via the central bank. That is what makes him better than Lincoln in my eyes, though ultimately I don't much care for either one of them to be honest.

[Kiljan Arslan]

How was the central bank concentrating power?

[El Brujo]

How wasn't it?