anti-jacksonian

Updated: May 12, 2025

It is a curious coincidence, if this be so, that more than twenty years later we shall find another great President, though bred in the anti-Jacksonian Whig tradition, compelled to take up much the same attitude in regard to a Supreme Court decision delivered by Taney himself. Biddle and his associates believed that the Message would be fatal to the President.

Cecil Chesterton - A History of the United States