The constitutional objections which I am well known to entertain would prevent me in any event from proposing or assenting to that remedy; but in addition to this, I can not after past experience bring myself to think that it can any longer be extensively regarded as effective for such a purpose.
Van Buren expresses his constitutional objections to a national bank and doubts its effectiveness based on past experiences.
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