By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun ...

Whigs in Congress proved to be major opponents in their attempts to pass legislation which Jackson believed favored the elite, including a bill to renew the charter for the Second Bank of the United ...

Jackson vetoed it, dismantling the bank; this was the first time a president justified a veto on policy grounds, rather than on constitutionality. For much of the American public however ...

In his 1832 veto of the Bank of the United States recharter ... An editorial cartoon circa 1836 depicts Andrew Jackson ‘slaying the many headed monster.’ The largest of the heads is ...