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| | Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (C) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The first congress held under the Jackson administration was presented with a document from South Carolina, protesting a recently passed strongly protectionist tariff, and threatening that the state might well take action to nullify it, and hinting at seccession if the Federal government should attempt to enforce the tariff. |
 | | He was a maverick in politics, supporting Andrew Jackson on some issues, but opposing him, sometimes very vocally, on other issues, such as Jackson's massive Indian removals, and the dismantling of the national bank. |
 | | One answer could be that Jackson had led armies, served as state prosecuter and state Supreme Court Judge, and he had a profound natural dignity, whereas Crockett had no executive experience, and could never resist being a clown. |
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