Now, as in his own time, Calhoun's voice resonates to fundamental concerns of American democratic polity: the nature of man, the obligations of government, and -- most keenly -- how best to safeguard the interest of a minority against the will of democratic majorities. His doctrine of concurrent majority and a minority veto -- although employed to defend the South's commitment to slavery in pre-bellum 19th Century America -- strikes an enduring question of how a diverse, and sometimes divided, society can maintain its integrity while honouring the interests of all its citizens.
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- A Disquisition on Government by John C. Calhoun on 5 pages
- Life of John Caldwell Calhoun (American Scene Series) by William M. Meigs on page 28
- Life and Labor in the Old South by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips on page 4
- Conservatism in America (Harvard Paperbacks) by Clinton Rossiter on page 29
- Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States by James Willard Hurst on page 29
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- John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography (Southern Biography) by John Niven on page 330, page 332, and page 333
- The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Mary Esteve in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Constitutional Law and National Pluralism by Stephen Tierney on page 101, and Back Matter
- Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture (The Curti Lectures, 1985) by Michael Kammen on page 12, and page 94
- The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role by Terry L. Cooper in Back Matter
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