Author: John Caldwell CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States
Author: John Caldwell CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Disquisition on Government
Author: John Caldwell CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Works of John C. Calhoun
Author: John Caldwell CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Calhoun and Popular Rule
Author: H. Lee CheekPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826215482
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Although John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) remains one of the major figures in American political thought, many of his critics have tried to discredit him as merely a Southern partisan whose ideas were obsolete even during his lifetime. In Calhoun and Popular Rule, H. Lee Cheek, Jr., attempts to correct such misconceptions by presenting Calhoun as an original political thinker who devoted his life to the recovery of a "proper mode of popular rule." As the first combined evaluation of Calhoun's most important treatises, The Disquisition and The Discourse, this work merges Calhoun's theoretical position with his endeavors to restore the need for popular rule. It also compares Calhoun's ideas with those of other great political thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison--while explaining what is truly unique about Calhoun's political thought.
A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States
Author: John C CalhounPublisher:
ISBN: 9780368869426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) was America's leading political theorist of his day who served as the seventh elected Vice President of the United States (1825-1832), the sixteenth United States Secretary of State (1844-1845), the tenth United States Secretary of War (1817-1825), as a senator from South Carolina (1845-1850), as a Member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina's 6th district (1811-1817), and as a Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Abbeville District (1808-1809). He was the foremost promoter of states' rights, limited government, nullification (the right o states to overrule federal laws) and free trade. He argued that slavery was a "positive good" in that it uplifted and protected the black population. He was also an ardent proponent of minority rights, and by this he meant the white population in the Southern States. Calhoun died eleven years before the start of the American Civil War, but he was an inspiration to the secessionists of 1860-61 and was featured on an (unissued) Confederate States of America (CSA) postage stamp and on a CSA $100 bill. A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States contains Calhoun's analysis of, and assertion that the US Constitution was designed to prevent vested interests from taking control of government and forcing their views and opinions on all others at their own expense. His premise was that any properly organized society has to work in recognition of differences in human nature, and not against them. This former view, he maintained, was the intent and purpose of the original framers of the Constitution. Calhoun's thoughts remain an original contribution to the history of political theory. His assertion of pluralism in political representation has influenced diverse critics of society, including liberal supporters of civil rights and conservative defenders of special social and economic interests.
A Disquisition on government and a discourse on the Constitution and government of the United States
Author: John Caldwell CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Works of John C. Calhoun: A Disquisition on government and a discourse on the Constitution and government of the United States
Author: John Caldwell CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Disquisition on Gouvernment and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States
Author: John Caldwell CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Disquisition On Government
Author: Calhoun John C.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780259640806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
From Vienna to Chicago and Back
Author: Gerald StourzhPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226776387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh’s sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career—from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria. This storied career brought him in the 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago—of which he draws a brilliant picture—and later took him to Berlin and eventually back to Austria. One of the few prominent scholars equally at home with U.S. history and the history of central Europe, Stourzh has informed these geographically diverse experiences and subjects with the overarching themes of his scholarly achievement: the comparative study of liberal constitutionalism and the struggle for equal rights at the core of Western notions of free government. Composed between 1953 and 2005 and including a new autobiographical essay written especially for this volume, From Vienna to Chicago and Back will delight Stourzh fans, attract new admirers, and make an important contribution to transatlantic history.