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Andrew Jackson: “I am constrained to deny my sanction to the act herewith respectfully returned to the Senate.”

On the recordJune 8, 1836
I am constrained to deny my sanction to the act herewith respectfully returned to the Senate.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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