Whigs in Congress proved to be major opponents in their attempts to pass legislation which Jackson believed favored the elite, including a bill to renew the charter for the Second Bank of the United .

Jackson threatened to collect the funds at gunpoint. The state backed down. When Whigs in Congress brought up a bill to charter the Second Bank of the United States -- a private institution that ...

Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second term in 1832 by the ... In vetoing the re-charter of the national bank, he established the precedent, though said ...