Jacksonian Democracy During the early period of independent America, many of the founding fathers and early leaders tended to be elite, aristocratic and well educated, a curse that the common man had fought hard to get away from in their revolution from Great Britain. The common man wanted to have a voice and be heard. The presidential election of 1824 had angered the people of America as the general consensus was ignored and the aristocratic House …showed first 75 words of 725 total…

…showed last 75 words of 725 total…every man in the towns an independent citizen…”and she was awe stricken as,”…the people were to be the judges.”(Document D) The Jacksonian Era was a time of prosperity and liberty for the regular American as now they, the commoners, had a voice. Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonians had ideas and policies that were important to the common man and whether it obeyed or disobeyed the constitution was not a concern of theirs.