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The fiscal power of the States will also be increased, and may be more extensively exerted in favor of education and other public objects, while ample means will remain in the Federal Government to promote the general weal in all the modes permitted to its authority.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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Jackson discusses the potential for increased state fiscal power to support education and public welfare.

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