First inaugural address of andrew jackson, selected quotes wednesday, march 4, 1829 "fellow-citizens: … in administering the laws of congress i shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the executive power trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority. … in such measures as i may be called on to pursue in regard to the rights of the separate states i hope to be animated by a proper respect for those sovereign members of our union, … this i shall aim at the more anxiously both because it will facilitat