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The people are the government, administering it by their agents th

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. – Andrew Jackson

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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. – Andrew Jackson

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Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. – Andrew Jackson

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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. – Andrew Jackson

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