Daniel Webster

Jackson Vetoes Second Bank Recharter, Triggering Financial Manipulation by Both Sides

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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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