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Written between 1843 and 1848, John C. Calhoun's A Disquisition on Government addresses such diverse issues as states' rights and nullification, slavery, and the growth of the federal judicial power. Articulating Calhoun's perspective on government as seen from the point of view of a permanent minority (the South), A Disquisition on Government relies on the doctrine of a concurrent majority. Calhoun's concurrent majority captures the idea that because...
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"From ... bestselling historian H.W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and to decide the future of our democracy. In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion...
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The author, who pioneered historical studies of the South and was criticized by Southern elites for his views on class and slaveholders, profiles three leaders in this 1911 book: President Thomas Jefferson, secessionist advocate John C. Calhoun, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Dodd claims Jefferson's South was the true South, and those of Calhoun and Davis were deviations from the course.
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