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    political parties have often taken responsibility of preserving the foundation in which America rested upon. The Jacksonian Democrats‚ during their existence from 1829 to 1841‚ led a "crusade" where they heavily maintained the principles of the United States Constitution‚ protected individual liberties‚ and provided equality of economic opportunity. Jacksonian Democracy is a type of democracy that the people should be governed as little as possible and that whatever governing that is taking place‚ should

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    October 26‚ 2012 Jacksonian Democracy‚ 1824-1845 1. Second Great Awakening – Spread throughout the South‚ targeting mainly women and African Americans: both slaved and enslaved. In the North Charles Finney led the revivalism and promoted the doctrine of perfectibility and iterated against popular belief that evil could be avoided. 2. Election of 1824 – John Quincy Adams‚ William Crawford‚ Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson. The House chose the president because no one led in the electoral college

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    During the Jacksonian era there were many different views on the rights and wrongs of the presidential actions. The Jacksonians thought themselves to be guardians of individual liberty‚ political democracy‚ the United States Constitution and the equality of economic opportunity. This in many cases can be argued that the Jacksonians were successful guardians of these four things. During the presidency of Andrew Jackson do to his often radical was of thinking individual liberty was often not well

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    Jeffersonian vs. Jacksonian Democracy Both Jefferson and Jackson were fighting for the interests of farmers against the commercial and mercantile interests of the country. Jefferson was portrayed as a man of the people‚ but he remained a wealthy planter who tended to associate only with other elites. His mannerisms were much more upper-class. Jefferson talked about limited government yet his actual practices as President differed. He maintained the bank of the US‚ authorized the Louisiana

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    Simon Wahba 12/12/12 Miss Weinstein Period 7 Democracy DBQ In the world many societies are switching to democracies from the demand from the people in that area. One of the first democracies ever was in Athens‚ Greece. Even though they were the first democracy ever assembled‚ questions arose as to how democratic they really were. Opinions vary‚ but although Athens became more democratic over time‚ because of a series of reforms‚ it still was still more un-democratic then

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    Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution‚ political democracy‚ individual liberty‚ and equality of economic opportunity. However‚ the Jacksonian Democrats were in a catch 22. In order for them to protect the interests of the common man‚ they at times had to violate the very things for which they stood. By doing this‚ the Jacksonian Democrats stressed the importance of the power of the common man‚ at times by violating their own principles. The

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    The definition of democracy is a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting and where everyone is treated equally and possess equal rights. The Constitution is created to have both democratic and undemocratic elements in it. The Constitution was created to have three parts of the federal government‚ which is the Executive‚ Legislative‚ and the Judicial branch‚ and this one of the democratic aspects of the Constitution when the Constitution tries to promote democracy. These three branches

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    Jacksonian Democracy was or was not democratic? Jacksonian Democracy marked the age "of the common man" and the era for an improvement on government and society. When Andrew Jackson was president‚ he led the nation of the United States into dramatic changes both socially and politically which affected the government system and the lives of the American people positively. He fascinated the American people greatly because he stood for values they stood for such as a better government system. Because

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    and independent farmer‚ who by no stretch of the imagine had the capabilities to serve in government. The Jacksonian Democracies image of the common man expanded from farmers to include laborers‚ planters‚ and mechanics. Jackson saw these people as the true representatives of the Government‚ and thus its true servers. The image of the common man for each the Jeffersonians and the Jacksonians differed in the fundamental principle of the true chosen class‚ and its real role in Government. Although

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    people in the culture in question. The United States has reached many different levels of equality throughout its history. A product of the times‚ it is always changing. Both Jeffersonian democracy and Jacksonian democracy were based on the beliefs in the freedom and equal rights of all men. However‚ Jacksonians acted more thoroughly on these ideas. While these two men essentially shared many of the same beliefs and ideas‚ there was a noticeable difference to how they acted on them and spoke out about

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