In an effort to highlight inconsistencies with a city ordinance, a Tulane University professor said that the iconic Andrew Jackson statue in Jackson Square of the French Quarter should be removed because it fits the same criteria that was used to vote to remove Confederate monuments.

Before a nearly empty city council chamber, Richard A. Marksbury, Ph.D., Tulane Dean School of Continuing Studies and Summer School, contended the statue of Andrew Jackson violates Section 146-611 of the City Code.

Marksbury presented the proposal before a meeting of the New Orleans City Council's Governmental Affairs Committee, saying the same action applied to the Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, P.T.G. Beauregard statues and the Liberty Place Monument could to applied to the Andrew Jackson statue.

The professor cited Jackson's past as a slave owner, who was responsible for the Trail of Tears and imprisoned many people in New Orleans.

But Marksbury appears to have made the proposal as a teaching point. He told Fox News that he is pursuing the proposal not to have any statues taken down, but rather to prove a point.

Last year, the city won an initial court ruling that would allow it to proceed with removing the monuments, though another legal challenge looms.

The city council voted 6-1 on December 17 to remove the Robert E. Lee statue at Lee Circle, the P.G.T. Beauregard statue outside of the entrance to City Park, the Jefferson Davis memorial on Jefferson Davis Parkway and the monument to the Battle of Liberty Place, located near the river.