JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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to make room for new sections
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to fix flaws in the original constitution
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to emphasize its importance
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to address new parts of the population
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Detailed explanation-1: -Delegates were driven by fear of an arbitrary executive and sought a Constitution that would guard against such abuses and excesses of state government from recurring.
Detailed explanation-2: -How was slavery addressed during Tennessee’s Second Constitutional Convention? A special committee declared it an evil practice, but the convention left it up to slaveowners to free their slaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tennessee’s first constitution was called the “least imperfect and most republican” one of its time by Thomas Jefferson. The document allowed suffrage for free African Americans who met certain land and residency requirements.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the summer of 1787, delegates gathered for a convention in Philadelphia, with the goal of revising the Articles of Confederation-the nation’s existing governing document. However, rather than simply revising the Articles of Confederation, they wrote an entirely new framework of government: the U.S. Constitution.