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Andrew Jackson: “It is the people, and they alone, who have a right to complain when a bad officer is substituted for a good one.”

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It is the people, and they alone, who have a right to complain when a bad officer is substituted for a good one.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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Jackson claims that only the people have the right to complain about poor officials.

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