When George Henry Evans cited the unalienable rights of the Declaration of Independence and that "to secure these rights" against the undue influence of other classes of society, prudence… dictates the necessity for the organization of a party, which...will prevent dangerous combinations to subvert these unassailable and fundamental privileges,” he called for a party to become the sentinel of original American democracy. And for many, the Jacksonian Democratic Party has fulfilled that role. The Democrats, who sought a democracy that involved the economic and social independence of the ordinary citizen, faced stiff opposition from the Whig Party of America's second party system. But aside from the political tensions of the time, the mid-1800s saw many movements and events that may or may not have embodied Democratic ideals. Thus, it would be foolish to claim that the Democratic period simply represented an American democratic flag-raising and even more foolish to assign another black-and-white assessment to this period. On the contrary, in an era of national and individual transformation, economic missions and social revision, Jacksonian Democrats succeeded in expanding their reality of individual freedom, creating the circumstances for further change and failing to achieve some of their grandiose ideals. for the “ordinary citizen”. Fighting against aristocratic economic overreach, like many before, Jacksonian Democrats were fiercely opposed to encroachment on individual economic equality. For Andrew Jackson, that threat was the Second Bank of the United States. Criticizing the National Bank because "it seems that more than a quarter of the shares are owned by foreigners and the ...... middle of paper ...... Jacksonian democracy. Works cited1. Andrew Jackson's veto message (July 10, 1832). 2. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's opinion in the Supreme Court case. 3. Daniel Webster's response to Jackon's veto message (July 11, 1832) .4.de Toqueville, Alexis. Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty: An American History (New York: WW Norton & Company, 2008), 358.5.President Jackson's First Annual Message to Congress: Indian Removal.6.Forbes, Elt. A family book containing discourses on the following subjects: doctrinal, evangelical, practical, and historical (1801).7.George Henry Evans, “The Workers' Declaration of Independence” (December 1829).8.Mott, Lucretia C. The Seneca Falls Manifesto (1848). 9. Philadelphians Demand Free Schools (1830). 10. President Jackson's Seventh Annual Message on Indian Removal (December 7, 1835). 11. William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator (1831).