I think Jackson was a great man but like most he had flaws. He may have been the bravest man ever to be President. He also may have been the toughest. His men did not call him “Old Hickory” because he was a wimp.
I agree that he never let the Constitution get in his way. Now that I think about it, he probably never let anything get in his way.
Although he forced the Indians into Oklahoma, (btw, Eastern Oklahoma is a beautiful land), he adopted an Indian baby and raised him as his own.
A really forceful personality who was basically good but also started the slide which ended in an all powerful Federal Government. Even so if it had not been for Lincoln, it probably would never have gotten to the current state.
In 1832 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokees being able to keep the gold found on their lands after the state of Georgia tried to seize their land.
President Andrew Jackson reputedly said “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”
Jackson sent troops to evict the Cherokee. The “Trail of Tears” to Oklahoma ensued.
There are times I long for words like that uttered to Breyer, Kagan, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and their like in the lower federal courts. Am entitled to some fanciful thinking.