By H. Lee Cheek Jr.
ISBN-10: 0826213332
ISBN-13: 9780826213334
ISBN-10: 0826263658
ISBN-13: 9780826263650
Even supposing John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) is still one of many significant figures in American political notion, lots of his critics have attempted to discredit him as purely a Southern partisan whose rules have been out of date even in the course of his lifetime. In Calhoun and renowned Rule, H. Lee Cheek, Jr., makes an attempt to right such misconceptions by means of offering Calhoun as an unique political philosopher who dedicated his existence to the restoration of a "proper mode of renowned rule." He argues that Calhoun had a coherent, systematic view of human nature and society and made an enduring contribution to the idea of constitutionalism and democracy. Cheek means that Calhoun used to be now not a political or philosophical aberration, yet an genuine exponent of yank constitutionalism. He contends that Calhoun's view of democracy types a part of a philosophy of humankind and politics that has relevance past the yankee adventure. even supposing his notion of renowned rule was once unique, it was once additionally on the topic of past makes an attempt in the United States and in other places to restrict the ability of the bulk and guard minority pursuits. in response to Cheek, Calhoun stood within the American political culture and tried to rearticulate a few of its crucial parts. He explains Calhoun's proposal of the concurrent majority and examines the way it has been offered through Calhoun's critics, in addition to his fans. because the first mixed evaluate of Calhoun's most crucial treatises, The Disquisition and The Discourse, this paintings merges Calhoun's theoretical place together with his endeavors to revive the necessity for renowned rule. It additionally compares Calhoun's principles with these of different nice political thinkers akin to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison--while explaining what's actually special approximately Calhoun's political inspiration. Calhoun's philosophy—his realizing of the necessity for moral and political restraint and for institutional ability for acquiring concurrence—is nonetheless proper this present day, specifically given the present turning out to be ethnic and cultural clash of the Western global. students of presidency, American background, and political inspiration, in addition to these attracted to figuring out "popular rule" and its theoretical and useful impression on smooth American executive, will locate this groundbreaking paintings to be of serious worth.
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Ralph Lerner, “Calhoun’s New Science of Politics,” 931. While Lerner represents the most thoughtful and philosophically disciplined of this “school” of critics, others who should be included in overviewing this approach to Calhoun are James D. Clarke, Harry V. Jaffa, and Robert Jeffrey. In his more recent work, The Thinking Revolutionary, Lerner seriously misrepresents Calhoun’s attitude toward Native Americans as being nearly synonymous with that of Andrew Jackson. For correctives from Calhoun’s writings, see Papers, 13:436, 453; 14:279; 15:492.
2 Calhoun’s Early Republicanism A Prologue to the Disquisition and Discourse To explicate Calhoun’s understanding of popular rule embodied in the Disquisition and Discourse, we must first attempt to apprehend the tradition and mode of political reflection of which John C. Calhoun was part, namely, the South Atlantic republican experience. 1 To place Calhoun within the heritage of the Founding and the earliest manifestations of American political thought, one must attempt to appreciate the sources of political insight and philosophical sophistication that nourished his understanding, as well as his assimilation of and transferal of this wisdom to posterity.
57. Gerald M. Capers, John C. Calhoun, Opportunist; John Niven, John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union; George Kateb, “The Majority Principle” (quotation from 600). 58. C. 59 More recent interpretations by John Niven and George Kateb view Calhoun as a politician and theorist who self-destructed before a willing audience of his countrymen. Niven offers the novel approach of attributing Calhoun’s failing to his insecurity as a political thinker, suggesting a gentler version of the personal denunciation initiated by Hofstadter and Hartz.
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