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Andrew Jackson: “Legislation subjected to such influences can never be just, and will not long retain the sanction of a people whose…”

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Legislation subjected to such influences can never be just, and will not long retain the sanction of a people whose active patriotism is not bounded by sectional limits nor insensible to that spirit of concession and forbearance which gave life to our political compact and still sustains it.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

He asserts that legislation influenced by selfish interests cannot be just and will lose public support.

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