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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4730810, member: 101855"]Although I will never a Jackson cheerleader the was Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. was, he did have his good points.</p><p><br /></p><p>- He introduced the American political system to the active, involved electorate by getting the people involved in selecting their presidents. When this nation was founded, only about 25% of the Electoral College votes were selected by a direct popular vote. By the 1824 election, when Jackson ran for the first time, that number had flipped to 75% popular vote and 25% state legislatures. Jackson was the presidential candidate to take advantage of that and put it work.</p><p><br /></p><p>- He actually fought one of the first skirmishes of the Civil War when he faced down John C. Calhoun over the nullification movement. Calhoun represented the southern states point of view. He headed up the nullification movement which held that a state could nullify any law the Federal Government passed that went against that state’s interests.</p><p><br /></p><p>The specific issue were the high protective tariffs that the Southern states had to pay on imported goods while the northern “infant industries” benefited from them. Calhoun had a legitimate complaint, but the idea that the states could treat any law the way they pleased posed a threat to the Union. Jackson stared him down with the threat of military force. Later the tariffs were reduced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4730810, member: 101855"]Although I will never a Jackson cheerleader the was Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. was, he did have his good points. - He introduced the American political system to the active, involved electorate by getting the people involved in selecting their presidents. When this nation was founded, only about 25% of the Electoral College votes were selected by a direct popular vote. By the 1824 election, when Jackson ran for the first time, that number had flipped to 75% popular vote and 25% state legislatures. Jackson was the presidential candidate to take advantage of that and put it work. - He actually fought one of the first skirmishes of the Civil War when he faced down John C. Calhoun over the nullification movement. Calhoun represented the southern states point of view. He headed up the nullification movement which held that a state could nullify any law the Federal Government passed that went against that state’s interests. The specific issue were the high protective tariffs that the Southern states had to pay on imported goods while the northern “infant industries” benefited from them. Calhoun had a legitimate complaint, but the idea that the states could treat any law the way they pleased posed a threat to the Union. Jackson stared him down with the threat of military force. Later the tariffs were reduced.[/QUOTE]
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