It is due to candor, as well as to my own feelings, that I should express the reluctance and anxiety which I must at all times experience in exercising the undoubted right of the Executive to withhold his assent from bills on other grounds than their constitutionality.
Jackson expresses his reluctance and anxiety about exercising the executive power to veto bills for reasons beyond their constitutionality.
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It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.
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The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
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