Calhoun differed from Jefferson and Madison in explicitly arguing for a state's right to secede from the Union, if necessary, instead of simply nullifying certain federal legislation.

Calhoun had formed a political party in South Carolina explicitly known as the Nullifier Party.

" Calhoun rejected the belief of Southern Whigs such as Henry Clay that all Americans could agree on the " opinion and feeling " that slavery was wrong, although they might disagree on the most practicable way to respond to that great wrong.

These people rejected the compact theory advanced by Calhoun, claiming that the Constitution was the product of the people, not the states.

Miles rejected any compromise on slavery and supported Calhoun in opposition to the Compromise of 1850.

In late June 2007 Calhoun's mighty elm — host of the college's famous tire swing and shade provider for literally every Calhoun student since the college's founding — was felled.

Adams said slavery contradicted the principles of republicanism, while Calhoun said that slavery was essential to American democracy, for it made all white men equal.

John Quincy Adams concluded in 1821 that: " Calhoun is a man of fair and candid mind, of honorable principles, of clear and quick understanding, of cool self-possession, of enlarged philosophical views, and of ardent patriotism.

Prominent spokesmen for Jeffersonian principles included Madison, Albert Gallatin, John Randolph of Roanoke, Nathaniel Macon, John Taylor of Caroline, James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ( with the last three taking new paths after 1828 ).

The " Old Republicans ," led by John Randolph of Roanoke, refused to form a coalition with the Federalists and instead set up a separate opposition, since the main Republican leaders ( notably James Madison, Albert Gallatin, James Monroe, John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay ) had in effect adopted Federalist principles by chartering the Second Bank of the United States, promoting internal improvements for transportation, raising tariffs to protect factories, and promoting a strong army and navy after the failures of the War of 1812.

Calhoun outlined the principles of the party in his South Carolina Exposition and Protest ( 1828 ), a reaction to the " Tariff of Abominations " passed by Congress and signed into law by President John Quincy Adams.

Word spread in the area that Luke was teaching racial equality, and resentment developed against him in the northern Calhoun County area.

Although Calhoun was a former slaveowner, he lived with a mixed-race woman as his common-law wife and supported black equality.

According to him, Calhoun believed that equality was only a prescriptive attribute on the part of the states, not a natural right of human persons.

By extension, Calhoun believes that human equality is derived from the relationship between equal states and not equal persons.

Lincoln contrasted his support for the Declaration with opposing statements made by the Southern politician John C. Calhoun and Senator John Pettit of Indiana, who called the Declaration " a self-evident lie.

St. Philip's graveyard is the final resting place of Edward Rutledge, the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence, and U. S. Senator and Vice President John C. Calhoun, whose body was exumed during the Civil War and buried near the church in an unmarked grave.

Calhoun was shaped by his father, Patrick Calhoun, a prosperous upstate planter who supported Independence during the American Revolutionary War but opposed ratification of the federal Constitution.

Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan.

West is the city of Albion and beyond that the cities of Marshall and Battle Creek, all in Calhoun County.

At one end of the room near the Old Supreme Court Chamber is a statue of John C. Calhoun.

" Historian Charles Wiltse agrees, noting, " Though he is known today primarily for his sectionalism, Calhoun was the last of the great political leaders of his time to take a sectional position — later than Daniel Webster, later than Henry Clay, later than Adams himself.

An observer commented that Calhoun was " the most elegant speaker that sits in the House ... His gestures are easy and graceful, his manner forcible, and language elegant ; but above all, he confines himself closely to the subject, which he always understands, and enlightens everyone within hearing ; having said all that a statesman should say, he is done.

Cheek argues that Calhoun is best understood as a representative of the South Atlantic tradition of agrarian republicanism.

Calhoun emphasizes the primacy of the idea of subsidiarity: popular rule is best expressed in local communities that are nearly autonomous while serving as units of a larger society.

Calhoun considered the concurrent majority essential to provide structural restraints to counter his belief that “ a vast majority of mankind is entirely biased by motives of self-interest and that by this interest must be governed .” This innate selfishness, which he viewed as axiomatic, would inevitably emerge when government revenue became available to political parties for distribution as patronage.

What Calhoun fails to explain, according to historian William W. Freehling, is how a compromise would be achieved in the aftermath of a minority veto, when the ubiquitous demagogues betray their constituencies and abandon the concurrent majority altogether.

is: John C. Calhoun

The School ’ s current Director is Professor Craig Calhoun.

For the last 20 miles ( 32 km ) of its course, the Illinois is separated from the Mississippi River by only about five miles, by a peninsula of land that makes up Calhoun County.

Calhoun County is a county located in the U. S. state of Florida.

As is universal in the Florida Panhandle, a majority of Calhoun County's residents remain much more attached to Southern culture and lifestyle habits than is common in the Central and Southern regions of the state influenced by large amounts of migration, and the area holds much more in common with states such as Alabama, Georgia, or Mississippi than with much of Florida.

Calhoun County is a county in the U. S. state of Alabama.

Its name is in honor of John C. Calhoun, famous member of the United States Senate from South Carolina.

Calhoun County is the name of several counties in the United States of America, mostly named after Senator John C. Calhoun:

* Piedmont ( part-part of Piedmont is in Calhoun County )

* Glencoe ( part of Glencoe is in Calhoun County )

* Ohatchee ( part of Ohatchee is in Calhoun County )

* Oxford ( part of Oxford is in Calhoun County )

Calhoun was born in 1782, the fourth child of Patrick Calhoun and his wife Martha Caldwell in Abbeville District, SC.

Isaac Sidney " Sid " Caesar ( born September 8, 1922 ) is an Emmy award winning American comic actor and writer best known for the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and for his role as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.

Watie was born in Oothcaloga, Cherokee Nation ( now Calhoun, Georgia ) on December 12, 1806, the son of Uwatie ( Cherokee for " the ancient one "), a full-blood Cherokee, and Susanna Reese, daughter of a white father and Cherokee mother.

In 1841, John Calhoun Clemson was born.

Daniel Calhoun Roper ( April 1, 1867 – April 11, 1943 ) was a U. S. administrator, particularly under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born in Marlboro County, South Carolina.

He was born in Virginia, studied medicine in Baltimore, Maryland ; moved to Howard County, Missouri, and settled near Glasgow, Missouri ; engaged in the practice of medicine ; studied theology ; was ordained to the ministry and became a Methodist minister in that locality ; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri ; presidential elector on the ticket of Jackson and Calhoun in 1828 ; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-third Congress ( March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835 ); resumed his ministerial duties and also the practice of medicine ; died near Rothville, Missouri, Chariton County, Missouri, in February 1863 ; interment in Hutcheson Cemetery, a family burial ground, near Rothville.

James A. Calhoun ( born May 10, 1942 ) is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut's men's basketball team.

A self-described Irish Catholic, Calhoun was born and raised in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he was a standout on the basketball, football, and baseball teams at Braintree High School.

Hayes was born in Curryville, Georgia, near Calhoun, on June 3, 1887, to Fanny and William Hayes, who were former slaves.

Will Calhoun ( born William Calhoun, July 22, 1964, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American drummer, who graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music.

John Ridge was born to the Cherokee chief Major Ridge and his wife Sehoya around 1802 in their village of Oothacaloga, near present-day Calhoun, Georgia.

His granddaughter Catherine ( daughter of Ezzard's biracial daughter Sinai Calhoun Webb, born a slave in 1830 ), married Antoine Graves, a prominent black realtor and educator in Atlanta.

Calhoun was born in South Carolina ( his father was a cousin of John C. Calhoun ) and his parents died when he was 18.

Lance was born in Gainesville, Georgia and has lived in Gordon County ( Calhoun ), Georgia.

Calhoun was born in Cincinnati, Ohio into a prestigious and wealthy merchant family that included his brother Frederick.