Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation
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Most Americans know Andrew Jackson as a frontier rebel against political and diplomatic norms, a "populist" champion of ordinary people against the elitist legacy of the Founding Fathers. Many date the onset of American democracy to his 1829 inauguration. Despite his reverence for the "sovereign people," however, Jackson spent much of his career limiting that sovereignty, imposing new and often unpopular legal regimes over American lands and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199751706
ISBN13:9780199751709
Release Date:June 2017
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.36 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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