Jackson was no sooner elected than
Governor Edwards of Illinois demanded the federal government effect
the removal of all Indians from the territory.
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Georgia,
growing more frustrated with the unfulfilled compact it has signed
years before with Thomas Jefferson, secretly began making plans to
extend state authority over Indian lands.
The state's
demand for Indian removal now had a sympathetic ear in the White
House, a man who, as a treaty commissioner, had demonstrated that
he had little regard for the rule of law. Consequently,
removal and exile of southern tribes from their homelands -
protected by the U.S. Constitutition - would become a lasting
hallmark of Jackson's administration.
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