The people are the government, administering it by their ag… - Andrew Jackson

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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.

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Andrew Jackson (15 March 1767 – 8 June 1845) was the seventh president of the United States of America (1829-1837), regarded as a hero for his actions in the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a founder of the Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. He was the first American president to have been a Democrat.

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