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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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Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. – Andrew Jackson

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