Opinion of Andrew Jackson

[Mr. Taft Republican]

I liked ending a centralized banking system, but the Trail of Tears and ignoring the Supreme Court forces me to vote HP

[Mr. Taft Republican]

I liked ending a centralized banking system, but the Trail of Tears and ignoring the Supreme Court forces me to vote HP

It was not Jackson but an influx of white settlers who ignored the Supreme Court ruling. Jackson’s statement of “Mr. Marshall has made his ruling, now let him enforce it” is not a reflection of an imperial president reaching for power but a statement of fact. Marshall had no way if making his ruling work. American settlers already had moved onto Cherokee land and the only way to move them was with the regular army. The regular army in 1832 was small and primarily on the frontier. Also, there would have been dubious legal authority to send an army into Georgia to protect the land of what amounted to under the Constitution as a foreign entity.

John Quincy Adams responded to the crisis in a much worse way than Jackson. Adams was more than willing to have the Cherokee wiped out by the white settlers. President Jackson at least allowed the Cherokee to escape their plight (albeit it was a treacherous journey) and to live a new like in Oklahoma. Had Jackson not intervened the Cherokee would have joined the Pequot and the Abekeni in near extinction. In nearly every way Jackson stopped an genocide, not create one. 

You've certainly opened my eyes but the result does not change my opinion.