That the efforts of the fathers of our Government to guard against it by a constitutional provision were founded on an intimate knowledge of the subject has been frequently attested by the bitter experience of the country.
Jackson asserts that the founding fathers' efforts to regulate currency were based on their understanding of economic principles.
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