As a mean for promoting political democracy, Jackson came up with what is called the spoils system. The spoils system is the act of rewarding supporters with good positions in office. ... While the system denied many able people the chance to contribute to the government, Jackson believed, "It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes." ... Jackson and his followers were promoter of political democracy because of their usage of the spoils system and beliefs of universal white manhood suffrage that allowed common men to have a...

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During the mid 1820's through the 1830's Jacksonian Democracy was born and subsisted in the United States. Jackson's quotation: "Our Federal Union-it must be and shall be preserved." shows how Jackson is the right person to lead the Jacksonian Democrats in safeguarding the Constitution, political de...

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In the 1820's and 1830's, President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Democrats brought forth the idea that they were guardians of the Constitution and many aspects of the U.S. government. The Democrats had tried to protect what the thought was the right way to guard the Constitution, political dem...

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During the 1820's and 1830s, Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the Constitution. These strict constructionists, easily comparable to Thomas Jefferson's early Republican party, influenced an increase in the people's participation in the national government and the amount of v...

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