Question

What was Andrew Jackson's perspective or opinion about Gibbons vs Ogden?

Answer 1

1829, having been passed by the supreme court, under the leadership of John Marshall who was a VERY big government man, in 1924.

However, the side he came down on in the Maysville Road veto was that the Maysville Road was totally local and therefore federal funds should not be used for local issues. Then again, he may have opposed the bill simply because Henry Clay supported it and those men hated each other.

So perhaps by his veto of the Maysville Road bill, he was saying he did not agree with Gibbons v Ogden but like I said, to my knowledge, there is no record on how he felt about it (but I am sure he had an opinion because the man had opinions about EVERYTHING