Jackson Vetoes Second Bank Recharter, Triggering Financial Manipulation by Both Sides
President Andrew Jackson vetoes legislation to renew the Second Bank of the United States’ charter, four years before its scheduled expiration, delivering a “popular and effective” message declaring the Bank “unauthorized by the Constitution, subversive to the rights of …
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Nicholas Biddle
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
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