Daniel Aaron Lazar » USH: Jackson Years http://www.daniellazar.com Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:56:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bad Precedent: Andrew Jackson’s assault on habeas corpus http://www.daniellazar.com/2010/01/01/bad-precedent-andrew-jackson%e2%80%99s-assault-on-habeas-corpus/ http://www.daniellazar.com/2010/01/01/bad-precedent-andrew-jackson%e2%80%99s-assault-on-habeas-corpus/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:09:27 +0000 Dan Lazar http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=1915 Jackson was a natural populist, but he also had a fiercely autocratic streak. One enemy likened him to an “exasperated rhinoceros.”

Read this piece on Jackson’s attack on civil liberties from the New Yorker

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