Union and Liberty: The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun
Calhoun’s most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the first time since the 1850s. These writings address such issues as states’ rights and nullification, slavery, the growth of the Federal judicial power, and Calhoun’s doctrine of the “concurrent majority.” This selection presents twelve notable speeches, letters, and essays by Calhoun; among them are his famous Fort Hill Address and his two great treatises on government - “A Disquisition on Government” and the “Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States.”
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Union and Liberty: The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun, ed. Ross M. Lence (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1992).
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Table of Contents
- Note on Sources
- Acknowledgments
- A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT
- A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
- SPEECH ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
- SPEECH ON THE TARIFF BILL
- EXPOSITION AND PROTEST
- ROUGH DRAFT OF WHAT IS CALLED THE SOUTH CAROLINA EXPOSITION
- PROTEST
- THE FORT HILL ADDRESS: ON THE RELATIONS OF THE STATES AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- SPEECH ON THE REVENUE COLLECTION [FORCE] BILL
- SPEECH ON THE RECEPTION OF ABOLITION PETITIONS
- FIRST REPORT
- REVISED REPORT
- PUBLIC LETTER TO J[OHN] BAUSKETT AND OTHERS, EDGEFIELD DISTRICT, S.C.
- SPEECH ON THE VETO POWER
- SPEECH ON THE INTRODUCTION OF HIS RESOLUTIONS ON THE SLAVE QUESTION
- SPEECH AT THE MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF CHARLESTON
- SPEECH ON THE OREGON BILL
- SPEECH ON THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA—AND THE GENERAL STATE OF THE UNION