In 1830,President Andrew Jackson vetoed a federal subsidy to the proposed Maysville Road,because

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President Jackson vetoed the federal subsidy to the proposed Maysville Road because he believed that the road was not a part of any system of interstate commerce. Jackson believed that the subsidy was therefore not within the scope of federal responsibility, as stated in his veto message: "I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."

In 1830,President Andrew Jackson Vetoed a Federal Subsidy to the Proposed