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Jackson fundamentally changed the presidency from a weak office into the powerful institution we know today.
Civitas Outlook editor-in-chief Richard M. Reinsch II interviews John Yoo about his recent Outlook article on Andrew Jackson, which examines how Jackson fundamentally changed the presidency from a weak office into the powerful institution we know today.
Yoo argues that, in contrast with George Washington's model of public virtue, Jackson proved presidents don't necessarily need personal virtue to be effective. Jackson made the presidency the direct representative of the people, claiming independent authority to interpret the Constitution and veto laws on policy grounds, and in doing so helped to create the modern presidency.
John Yoo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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