Andrew Jackson Quotes:
Ocupation: 7th U.S. President
Life: March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845
Birthday: March 15
Death: June 8
I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
source: John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.266, New Leaf Publishing Group
topic: Law, Principles, United States, Nullification
