To make the General Government the instrument of carrying this odious principle into effect would be at once to destroy the means of its usefulness and change the character designed for it by the framers of the Constitution.
Jackson warns that using the government to enforce equal distribution of property would undermine its intended purpose as established by the Constitution.
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