he proposed that the maysville road from lexington to maysville be supported by federal government money to turn into a hard surface turnpike. hard surface paint stone cover. and an engineered road rather than simply and the track across the countryside. and his argument was that it would serve a larger area and it would serve commercial traffic. andrew jackson in his literal interpretation of the constitution did not see the argument that way. he said that the constitution said that any project that was essentially local in nature could not be supported by federal money. and so andrew jackson saw the road, the 67 miles of it from lexington to the ohio river, as a local project, even though the turnpike finds that later are going to nashville tennessee, and floors alabama on to suggest a truly original road if not a national road because it ultimately would connect with new orleans. so we have two sides to the debate. the side that sees the larger picture and the maysville road as one section of a much larger highway that's going to connect the pittsburgh area with new orleans on the one