and fought for a larger role for the common man in our democracy, and at times in our history, those have been critical values. But Jackson was massively controversial in his own time and ever ...

Jackson was ... he stood for the “common man,” an image he validated when he gave the vote to all white male citizens (rather than only to white land owners). The 1828 election was seen as a rematch ...

In the fall of 1828, Jackson won the vote, revealing that the American public preferred him because he stood for the “common man ... “What a wonderful man is Andrew Jackson!... the iron man of his age ...