Excerpts from First Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson: 1. ". In administering the laws of Congress / shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power
trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.
2. In such measures as I may be called on to pursue in regard to the rights of the separate States I hope to be animated by a proper
respect for those sovereign members of our Union,
3. This I shall aim at the more anxiously both because it will facilitate the extinguishment of the national debt, the unnecessary duration
of which is incompatible with real independence,
4. that the spirit of equity, caution and compromise in which the Constitution was formed requires that the great interests of agriculture,
commerce, and manufactures should be equally favored.
5. As long as our Government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will, as long as it secures to us the
rights of person and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending..."
Review section 5. Which answer correctly summarizes Jackson's key issue in that section?
Liberty and personal freedoms should be protected,
The current government is not worth protecting
People are the primary strength of any government.
O Government has little power without the will of the people,