Jacksonian Definition

Jacksonian Sentence Examples

• A Jacksonian seizure is a partial seizure characterized by tingling, stiffening, or jerking of an arm or leg.

• In New York at this time the National Republicans, or "Adams men," were a very feeble organization, and shrewd political leaders at once determined to utilize the strong anti-Masonic feeling in creating a new and vigorous party to oppose the rising Jacksonian Democracy.

• From about 1825 to 1845 Woodbury was the undisputed leader of the Jacksonian Democracy in New England.

• No American president has done so much to discredit and destroy the old Jacksonian theory of party government that "to the victors belong the spoils," and to create confidence in the practical success as well as the moral desirability of a system of appointments to office which rests upon efficiency and merit only.

• Accordingly, his denunciation of President Andrew Jackson's bank policy added strength to the Jacksonian Democracy, and, later, his Whig connexions were the greatest source of the Whig party's weakness in New Hampshire.