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Why did Andrew Jackson so strongly object to Henry Clay’s American System?

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Henry Clay was viewed by Jackson as politically untrustworthy, an opportunistic, ambitious and self-aggrandizing man. He believed that Clay would compromise the essentials of American republican democracy to advance his own self-serving objectives.

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