By today's standards this period in the US wasn't very democratic, since minorities and women and poor people could not vote. It became less equal because of wealth disparities.
ALL OF THE ABOVE. The Massachusetts Body of Liberties places a lot of government authority in the hands of magistrates, maintains that life or property cannot be taken away unless it's done through the process of law, and guarantees that citizens cannot be arrested or punished unless they have broken the law.
The three anti-Jackson forces that came together involved the nationalists allying with Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster (New England business interests) and the South (particularly South Carolina).
