Secondly, Jefferson's strict construction, where if the Constitution doesn't clearly address a group, it cannot be present. ... However, the opportunity may have not continued to be accessible for a long amount of time, and Jefferson changed his own "strict construction" aspects and doubled the size of the United States. ... The Federalist Party transformed from being an organization that held immense theories and a loose meaning of the Constitution to one that embraced a more strict interpretation and then vanished. ...

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The Bank of the United States made him very nervous because it concentrated a lot of power in a few hands, some of those were foreign nationals, and because it was created via a broad interpretation instead of a strict one of the Constitution. ...

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Although Jacksonian Democrats promoted political democracy, equal opportunity, and personal liberty during Andrew Jackson's two terms as president from 1828 to 1836, they were exclusively given to White males. Despite Jackson's proclaimed "politics for the common man," he may as well have said "poli...

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From 1836-1877 a loosely powered Presidential reconstruction of the Southern states existed while eventually a stricter more involved program by the Congress redeemed the southern states. ... "Freedom itself became a terrain of conflict, its substances open to different and sometimes contradictory interpretations, its content changing for whites as well as blacks in the aftermath of the Civil War" (Foner, 35). ...

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