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The essays in this forum mark the 250th anniversary of Andrew Jackson's birth by reassessing the meaning and legacy of "Jacksonian Democracy." Some scholars have challenged this once-popular concept, while these contributors find that "Jacksonian Democracy" often combined the celebration of majority rule with racial supremacy for white men. Most Jacksonians sought power for white men while denying it to people of color, yet some promoted the interests of all laborers, including the enslaved, and granted citizenship and political rights to Native Americans. Racial democracy did not always function in straightforward ways. Jacksonian political culture also included distinct gender relations and household patriarchy, with mastery at home empowering white men in public. Jacksonian Democracy shaped more than politics, as Jacksonian notions of egalitarianism and democracy influenced religious, economic, and legal thought. This forum underscores the complexity of Jacksonian Democracy, a political ideology and a cultural worldview with a lasting legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The U.S. Constitution's authors sought through a deliberately designed equilibrium to maintain boundaries delineating the branches and constraining the reach of America's federal government. The Framers aimed to pit opposing agendas of powerful persons and of aggregate interest groups against each other in order to mute political excesses. However, this constitutional architecture neglected the potential of intrapsychic conflict within individuals to resonate through group psychodynamic processes and thereby weaken constitutional boundaries safeguarding republican institutions. Andrew Jackson's presidency is analyzed in that context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses Andrew Jackson's attitudes and actions toward the West. Involvement with the activities of former Vice-President Aaron Burr and the Burr Conspiracy; Becoming a US Army brigadier general; Jackson as a product of his time; The story of the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast; Long-range plans concerning internal improvements and states' rights; More.

The article discusses the Webster-Hayne debates of January 1830 regarding Foot's bill between U.S. Senators Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina, focusing particularly on the printed version of Webster's speech titled "Second Reply to Hayne." The author focuses on Webster's understanding of geographic place by considering political sectionalism in American politics, Western expansionism, the nullification crisis, and the consolidation of federal power. Other subjects include Webster's 1820 "Plymouth Oration," the 1851 painting "Daniel Webster Replying to Hayne" by George Healy, and New England's efforts to reestablish political primacy in the U.S. government.

Explores the relationships between national political questions and national judicial questions during the second party system in the U.S. and, to a lesser extent, the present. Elaboration of the meaning of Tocqueville's thesis that scarcely any political question arises in the U.S. that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question; Appropriate tests for Tocqueville's thesis; Reason why most political and constitutional questions in the U.S. during the time of U.S. President Andrew Jackson were not resolved into judicial questions.

Discusses the criticism that was leveled against United States President Andrew Jackson in 1828 for choosing John H. Eaton as secretary of war because of Eaton's marriage to the notorious Margaret (O'Neil) Timberlake. Gossip surrounding Margaret Eaton; How Mrs. Eaton's character raised a debate over the dangers that women posed to politics; Efforts by Eaton to have his wife accepted by other politicians wives.

Documents the pervasive way in which Country-Court language shaped political debate in the last climactic year of the Bank War. Distrust of the Court during the Jacksonian period; Formation of the second party system; Different responses to the market revolution; Concept of a Kitchen Cabinet; Coexistence of liberalism and republicanism in the eighteenth century.

Focuses on the nullification crisis of 1832-1833. Conflicts leading up to the Civil War; Question of sovereignty; Theory on republicanism; Senate's debate over the Force Bill; Rights of individual states to interpose against federal laws; Relationship between leaders and followers.

The article presents a profile of the U.S. Congressman Richard Mentor Johnson and his common-law African American slave wife Julia Chinn, discussing their marriage, the publicity and popular reactions to their relationship within the 1836 U.S. presidential election, and its implications on the social conditions of antebellum society. Comments are offered questioning the ability to evaluate rhetoric of love in master-slave legal relationships. Examples of political cartoons relating to the couple are also cited and analyzed, noting the negative connotations of such relations in that era.

Presents a review of the book `The Presidency of Andrew Jackson,' by Donald B. Cole, from the American Presidency Series. What book entails; Main theme of Andrew Jackson's presidency; View of the book.