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PennStateUniversity
12/21/15
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ShouldAndrewJacksonBeOnThe$20bill?
Shouldwewantakilleronthe$20bill?PresidentAndrewJacksonwaspresidentfrom
1829till1837.Jacksonisamurderer.JacksonwaswellknownforkillingNativeAmericans.
DuringJackson'spresidencyhecreatedsomethingcalledtheSpoilsSystem,whichmeansthat
youcouldbethemostqualifiedpersononthejobyoucouldgetreplacewithoneofJackson's
supporters.Also,Jacksontookthevetopoweroutofcontrol.OnJuly10,1832Jacksonvetoed
theNationalBank.JacksonalsowentagainsttheConstitutionwhentheSupremeCourtvoted
againsttheIndianRemovalAct.AndrewJacksonshouldn'tbeonthe$20billbecausehetook
advantageofthevetopower,wentagainsttheConstitution,andcreatedtheSpoilSystem.
Thevetosystemwasfirstcreatedinthe1700butthefirstvetowasusedonMarch3,
1845.ThevetosystemwasonewaytogivetheExecutivebranchequalamountofpowerfrom
theLegislativeandJudicialBranches.Jacksontookadvantageofthissystem.Somepeople
thoughtthatJacksonwasakingbecauseofhowmuchhetookadvantageofthevetosystem.
Accordingto
http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2008/januaryfebruary/feature/
andthearticle
KingAndrewandtheBank,
ToJacksonitdidnotmatter.IntheBank,Jacksonfounda
concretefocusforallhisfearsofaristocraticsubversion
ThisprovesthattheJacksonusedhis
vetopowerjusttouseitalsoofhisfearofbeingoverthrownorbeingimpeached.In
conclusionwe
wouldn'twantapresidentwhowasclosetobeimpeachedonabillweuse
everyday.
Also,Jacksonshouldnotbeonthe$20billbecausehewentagainsttheConstitution.
JacksonwantedtheNativeAmericanstoleavetheirland.ToexpandAmericahedecidedthat
hewouldmove16,000NativeAmericanstotheIndianTerritory,whichisnowknownas
Oklahoma.ThiswascalledtheIndianRemovalAct.TheCherokeeandTheBlackSeminoles
decidedtotaketheacttotheSupremeCourt.WhentheCourtopposetheactJacksonforced
theactdisregardingthesupremecourt'soppose.Accordingto
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html
andthearticlePrimary
DocumentsinAmericaanHistory,
TheHouseofRepresentativesvoted
102to97topassthe
IndianRemovalAct(S.102).TheIndianRemovalActwassignedintolawbyPresidentAndrew
Jackson.
Jacksonshouldnotbeonthe$20billisbecausehecreatedtheSpoilsSystem.TheSpoils
SystemiswhenAndrewJacksongavejobstohissupporters.TheSpoilsSystemiswrong
becauseyoucouldbethemostqualifiedpersonandstillgetreplacedwithoneofJackson's
supporters.Accordingto
https://sites.google.com/a/ramapocentral.net/presidentandrewjackson/spoilsystem
andthe
articleSpoilsSystemoftheirpositionsinoneyear423postmasterswerestripe
d,
mostwith
extensiverecordsofgoodservice.ThismeansthatAndrewJacksonputout423goodworking
men.
Wewouldn'tapersonwhodoesnotmaketherightdecisionsforornationonthe$20bill.
Inconclusion,AndrewJacksonshouldnotbeonthe$20billbecausehetookadvantage
ofthevetopower,wentagainsttheConstitution,andcreatedtheSpoilsSystem.Tosumthings
allupJacksonwasn'tthebestpresident.Heabusedhispoweraspresident,andwasmostly
knownasking.Weshouldwantbetterforourmoneysystem.JacksonisanIndianKiller.We
don'twantakilleronourmoney,Todoesn'trepresentourAmerica.