Aboriginal Rights Quotes
This quotation is the most hypocritical statements made by any President in his Inaugural Address. Jackson would not only flip flop on this principle and force the Indians (Cherokee and the Trail of Tears) to remove from their traditional lands in the East, but the Federal Government by Treaty was obligated to guarantee the sovereignty of the Cherokee land. What even made Jackson’s actions worse, was that the Cherokee had won their case before the Supreme Court, and Jackson became the only President in American history to refuse to enforce a Supreme Court decision that the Cherokee were entitled to their traditional land.
He was referring to the fact that he had blocked the Meech Lake Accord preventing the Canadian Constitution being amended to recognize French-Speaking Quebec as a separate nation within Canada, but ignoring the Indians.
