Wednesday, November 7, 2007

To what extent did Jackson abide adn defy the Constitution of America?

Jackson democrats' attempt to amplify the strength of lower class’ poor abides the principle of equality according to constitution, however such “equality” shunned minorities and only assisted white men. Jackson’s hypocrisy and cruelty in his Indian removal practices showed the non-universal principle held by the democrats. In 1828, while many white Americans believed that native America could be assimilated into the white society, president Jackson, who clearly wanted to open Indian lands to the new settlement of immigration, proposed a bodily removal of the remaining eastern tribe-chiefly Cherokees to the further west. In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, providing for the transplanting of all Indian tribes then resident east of the Mississippi. In consequence, human right of the native Americans were violated. They were not treated a human and their cause had devalued, and even considered subordinate to the United States. Consider their adoption toward the civilized society, a Indian tribe or nation is not a foreign state in the sense of consititution, they should regard as part of the United states. But yet Indian Act of 1830 denied Native American the right to democracy and was a political violation. It was also further question the sense of equality within Jaksonian democrats.

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