Author:John Caldwell Calhoun

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John C. Calhoun (1782–1850)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, quotes. Lawyer and politician from South Carolina, who served as Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. He was a major defender of states' rights, limited government, and nullification.

John C. Calhoun

Works

• South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828)
• Against the Force Bill (15 & 16 February 1833)
• Slavery a Positive Good (6 February 1837)
• Disquisition on Government (1851) (page scans, pp. 1–107)
• A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (1851) (page scans, pp. 111–406)

Works about Calhoun

• John Greenleaf Whittier, To a Souther Statesman
• The Cambridge History of American Literature, Book II, Chapter XV (section § 13. John C. Calhoun.)
• John Randolph Tucker, “Calhoun, John Caldwell,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.

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