Others have suggested even if the quote is apocryphal (it's hard not to think so) that it accurately describes Jackson's position. I am not certain that is the case. Robert Remini suggests, with some authority, that Jackson never would have said it because he would not have accepted the Court’s self-appointed role as the final arbiter of political questions (p. 30 [at Note 50] in The Legacy of Andrew Jackson). (It may accurately characterize his views toward the Indian question.) This question, undoubtedly, is a matter of much debate.
The letter quoted by Keith Whittington is from April 7, 1832, to John Coffee. Richard Dougherty University of Dallas
