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On the recordFebruary 9, 1835
Their continued repetition imposes on me, as the representative and trustee of the American people, the painful but imperious duty of resisting to the utmost any further encroachment on the rights of the Executive.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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