Jacksonian Democracy
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How democratic where the Jacksonian Democrats
1.0 Intro
Under his campaign for presidency in 1828 Andrew Jackson made use of methods never before seen. He set a big machinery in motion for winning the presidential election, and he can in some respects be given credits for inventing the modern way of campaigning. Among the innovative aspects of his campaigning were the widespread use of newspapers, campaign documents and propaganda. His way of organization is another aspect. With a group of people around him taking it as their full time job to campaign for him in different areas of America. With his incitement for holding back what he stood for as he suited or being unclear or clear as he found it, gives his campaigning the final piece of the modern face. In other words, we can track back to Jackson's era, the modern party system, approaching the form it has today.
Andrew Jackson went to the ballots with a cry for a more democratic order, and announcing the coming of the age of the common man. Can it be that the man who did such a thing as invent the campaigning, (in the modern sense of the word,) was the same man who raised the standard of the democracy to a new height?..