JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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He dismissed Chief Justice John Marshall
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He disregarded the Supreme Court ruling on nullification
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He refused to enforce its ruling that the state of Georgia could not remove Native Americans.
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He closed all the banks.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pres. Andrew Jackson declined to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision, thus allowing states to enact further legislation damaging to the tribes. The U.S. government began forcing the Cherokee off their land in 1838.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jackson is famous for having responded: “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” Although the comment is probably apocryphal, both Georgia and Jackson simply ignored the decision.
Detailed explanation-3: -Enforcing the ruling would mean not only deviating from his own ideology, but alienating a state that shared his core beliefs. So he decided to undermine the system of checks and balances and ignore the ruling. Without the president’s enforcement of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the opinion largely meant nothing.
Detailed explanation-4: -President Jackson responded to the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia (1832) by simply ignoring the decision.