Essay On Andrew Jackson's Time In The Oval Office

President Andrew Jackson’s time in the Oval Office has always been one of extreme controversy throughout American history. His concept of Jacksonian Democracy has been described by some as the beginning of true social and egalitarian reform within American politics and everyday life. While others believe that Jacksonian Democracy itself is a contradiction, stating that President Jackson’s time in office was plagued with the worst of our history’s hate crimes and the injustices done to many being unconstitutional and therefore undemocratic at their core. But to answer the question of whether or not Andrew Jackson upheld the values that were prevalent in American politics and society at its founding, we must separate what we believe were the

Although it is true that several Founding Fathers would’ve been described as abolitionists or against slavery, many still made their large amounts of money off of slavery and owned slaves. And even though there was originally going to be a ban on slavery in the original American constitution, it was still edited out to save themselves the issue of separating the colonies when they believed they needed unity. Which is very similar to Andrew Jackson’s approach during his presidency. And one should keep in mind, that even though many might have disagreed with the idea of slavery, they did not disagree with it strong enough to believe it was a deal breaker. If you were to read the original American Constitution and what would have been written on it in this time period, you would see that it really was written for the landowning white man. So you could even argue that Andrew Jackson’s own vision of the Constitution would’ve been radical for the time period and the founding father’s original vision of the document. Adding in these factors, you could see how Andrew Jackson’s presidency upheld values prevalent to American politics at the time and its founding, but not with how we would construe them