Most everyone has heard or learned about the Indian removal act and probably wondered how that was made and why it wasn 't vetoed or ruled unconstitutional. The Indian removal act was a law that was passed that allowed the president to make treaties with the native americans and try to offer them money and land somewhere else for there land. Andrew jackson got a lot of the tribes to sign the treaties but the ones that did not were pushed out by force anyway. This led to the Trail of tears which was when Andrew Jackson pushed out all of the Cherokee Nation with force and caused over 4000 native americans to lose their lives. The checks and balances system did not work as planned during this time the government was controlled by one party and
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The senate consisted of 25 Jacksonians and 23 anti-jacksonians, the house of representatives consisted of 136 jacksonians and 72 anti-jacksonians. The jacksonian party was a democrat party and andrew jackson was a democrat. Andrew Jackson also appointed 6 supreme court judges making the supreme court in his favor.”Together, these six justices transformed the Supreme Court”(john). When all of the branches of government are controlled by one political party it 's way easy for one branch to have more power over the others. In this case it was the executive branch calling all the shots and getting whatever they wanted as soon as they …show more content…
Nowhere in this act did it say that the natives would be forced by gunpoint to leave so the executive branch did a bad job and going threw with the law and should have been checked or had the bill vetoed.”In the fall of 1838, the U.S. government, now under Van Buren, ordered the forcible removal of the Cherokees from Georgia to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma”(Aboukhadijeh). The government should have not forced the cherokees out of their home because they had no business to ask them to sign the treaty of ecoata in the first place.
With all this information you know know about the indian removal act and how corrupt the government was at this time. The checks and balances were used vary poorly during this time and did not work. The supreme court did not rule the indian removal act unconstitutional. Andrew jackson ignored the verdict of the worcester vs georgia case and no branch of government even attempted to check that. as a result of this corrupted checks and balances system over 2000 native americans were killed on the trail of
The senate consisted of 25 Jacksonians and 23 anti-jacksonians, the house of representatives consisted of 136 jacksonians and 72 anti-jacksonians. The jacksonian party was a democrat party and andrew jackson was a democrat. Andrew Jackson also appointed 6 supreme court judges making the supreme court in his favor.”Together, these six justices transformed the Supreme Court”(john). When all of the branches of government are controlled by one political party it 's way easy for one branch to have more power over the others. In this case it was the executive branch calling all the shots and getting whatever they wanted as soon as they …show more content…
Nowhere in this act did it say that the natives would be forced by gunpoint to leave so the executive branch did a bad job and going threw with the law and should have been checked or had the bill vetoed.”In the fall of 1838, the U.S. government, now under Van Buren, ordered the forcible removal of the Cherokees from Georgia to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma”(Aboukhadijeh). The government should have not forced the cherokees out of their home because they had no business to ask them to sign the treaty of ecoata in the first place.
With all this information you know know about the indian removal act and how corrupt the government was at this time. The checks and balances were used vary poorly during this time and did not work. The supreme court did not rule the indian removal act unconstitutional. Andrew jackson ignored the verdict of the worcester vs georgia case and no branch of government even attempted to check that. as a result of this corrupted checks and balances system over 2000 native americans were killed on the trail of