Andrew Jackson Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Rights, Citizens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, Issues, Historical

• I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Government, Political

  "A Subaltern's Furlough : Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during the Summer and Autumn of 1832" by Edward Thomas Coke, Ch. 9, p. 145, 1833.

• Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

  Andrew Jackson

  Father, Blood, Constitution

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1929). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

• It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, Law, Practice

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.263

• The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

  Andrew Jackson

  Law, Unions, Constitution

  Andrew Jackson, John F. Brown, William White (1837). “Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: with a short sketch of his life”, p.245

• I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

  Andrew Jackson

  Law, Principles, United States

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.266, New Leaf Publishing Group

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