Why Was Andrew Caesar Was Great

Imagine if Julius Caesar was the president of the United States of America. Andrew Jackson is the closest comparison that could be made to having Caesar as president. His power as a president was great, almost rivaling the power of the monarch of Britain. Jackson’s power was so great that he even defied the supreme court. To achieve this power Jackson formed links with the public to get what he wanted and ignored the personal thoughts of his fellow associates and instead relied on the “Kitchen Cabinet”. Jackson was from the west, a major slave owner, and general. His popularity came from the victorious last battle of the ‘War of 1812’ in New Orleans, where his smaller army defeated the British soldiers decisively. Then later on he raided Florida …show more content…
Most importantly, Jackson abused his veto power as president and vetoed more bills than all the presidents before him (Class Notes). In total Andrew Jackson vetoed 12 bills in total, 7 being pocket vetoes (Vetoes/Presidents/Jackson.gov). One of the most important vetoes was an act that involved the bank’s charter for renewal which Henry Clay with Nicholas Biddle the president of the bank pushed up (Class notes). The election of 1832 was coming up and Henry Clay saw an opportunity for President Jackson to lose the election of 1832 by moving this bill up, but he did not predict him to win in a landslide because of how powerful he is (Document 2 and class notes). Another important fact is known widely by historians that study American history is that Andrew Jackson was either someone you hated or loved since of his beliefs which led to divisions in the country, this division was significantly increased when he defied the supreme court's ruling on the unfair treatment of Native Americans. By doing this Andrew Jackson showed the amount of power he held, he basically did not care about the supreme court’s ruling since they could not enforce it and went along with his own opinion which would be called tyranny in the present. According to Document 4 it shows Jackson as a king trampling over documents such as the constitution. …show more content…
The largest and most impactful way that Jackson heated up the political atmosphere was by creating the spoils system (Class Notes). The spoils system is still used in the current administration but Jackson fired every single worker almost and filled their occupations with his own supporters. One of the reasons this was highly corrupt was because even if he lost another election he would still have a large amount of power. The other reason was that Jackson could get more support and power for himself since people who wanted a federal job had to support him. One way this is demonstrated is through firing his cabinet members who would not do what he wanted. Jackson went through over 4 secretary of states and even more secretary of the treasury during his term (Class notes). This shows that Jackson was not very good at handling problems with his cabinet in democratic terms, and instead if they caused trouble for him or disagreed he just fired them and found someone else. This is exactly how the royalty worked in Europe, whenever another monarch rose to power and they wanted to seize it themselves they killed or got rid of the monarch of the kingdom somehow. Another way Jackson failed to handle his political party was through Samuel Swartwout who stole a large amount of money from the U.S. government (Document 6). Samuel Swartwout was a supporter of Jackson who